More and more American adults are getting in favor of legalizing marijuana and reaching a 60 percent record high. The poll indicates the support for making cannabis legal became almost twice in the last decade and attained its topmost level in 47 years.
The increase in the support for marijuana legalization belongs to younger people. Gallup's study is the same to the conducted survey by the Pew Research Center on October 12.
The states of Colorado and Washington were the first to legalize recreational marijuana in 2012. Those who followed their tracks include District of Columbia, Oregon, and Alaska.
Time cited that authorized marijuana business could generate this year over $6.7 million in sales. Next month, additional four states which include Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Maine are going to vote on marijuana legislature that could perhaps shift the percentage of states where weed is authorized of almost 25 percent.
"If recreational marijuana use becomes legal in California this year, many other states will likely follow, because the 'Golden State' often sets political trends for the rest of the U.S.," states the Gallup report.
The Gallup poll results for this year are established on a study of not less than 1,000 Americans aged 18 and up and were interviewed from October 5 to 9. Those who participated were asked, "Do you think the use of marijuana should be made legal, or not?" The poll has a set off of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Arkansas, Florida, and North Dakota will come to an agreement if cannabis will be certified for medical purposes. Montanans, on the other hand, will ballot on alleviating the regulation on the current medical pot law, according to PBS Newshour.
Democrats are probably to support marijuana legalization than Republicans. This year, 67 percent of Democrats said cannabis must become legal compared to Republicans' 42 percent who oppose it.
