Thirty-five percent of college freshman support legalizing marijuana, more than double the number who endorsed it 1989, according to the results of a study by the University of California, Los Angeles for the Washington-based American Council on Education.
“This is a growing trend among not only college students, but the American public at large,” said Allen St. Pierre, Executive Director of The NORML Foundation. “As more Americans have first hand experience with marijuana, you have growing numbers of people rejecting the government’s claims of ‘reefer madness.’
Federal statistics indicate that more than one third of Americans over age eighteen admit to having experimented with marijuana at some point in their lives.
Pollsters commented that college students’ growing support for marijuana comes at a time when many students are embracing more conservative positions on other cultural issues such as gay rights and abortion.
For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre of The NORML Foundation @ (202) 483-8751.