Almost one out of every two Americans say that marijuana is “in,” according to a new Roper Starch survey about what’s hot and what’s not. The study involved face to face interviews nationwide with 2,000 representative adults age 18 or older.
Allen St. Pierre, Executive Director of The NORML Foundation, called the response “remarkable.”
“After 60 years of a blanket prohibition on marijuana, and despite the existence of a myriad of civil and criminal punishments, the plant still enjoys wide social approval,” he said. “As reform minded organizations such as The NORML Foundation better educate America about the harm associated with marijuana prohibition, public attitudes about marijuana will continue to move from one of dissonance to social change.”
Respondents ranked marijuana as one of the nation’s thirty hottest items.
Roper Starch Worldwide is one of the nation’s largest market research and consulting firms.
For more information, please contact either Dick Altman of Roper Starch Worldwide @ (212) 697-2620 or Allen St. Pierre of The NORML Foundation @ (202) 483-8751.
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