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Massachusetts marijuana ballot initiative support grows: poll
Source: Reuters
U.S. | Wed Oct 19, 2016 | 9:02am EDT
Massachusetts marijuana ballot initiative support grows: poll
Some 55 percent of likely Massachusetts voters are leaning toward voting to legalize recreational use of marijuana by adults in a ballot initiative next month, more than supported the idea a month ago, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
A poll conducted for WBUR, a Boston public radio station, by MassINC Polling Group also found that 40 percent of 502 likely voters polled Oct. 13-16 opposed the measure. That was a wider margin of support than the 50 percent support and 45 percent opposition the poll found last month.
The poll, which has a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points, found that 84 percent of likely voters would not be bothered by people using marijuana in their own homes, though 64 percent said they would object to people using it in public.
Respondents were evenly split on whether they had ever used marijuana, with 49 percent saying they had and 49 percent saying they had not.
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Massachusetts marijuana ballot initiative support grows: poll
Some 55 percent of likely Massachusetts voters are leaning toward voting to legalize recreational use of marijuana by adults in a ballot initiative next month, more than supported the idea a month ago, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
A poll conducted for WBUR, a Boston public radio station, by MassINC Polling Group also found that 40 percent of 502 likely voters polled Oct. 13-16 opposed the measure. That was a wider margin of support than the 50 percent support and 45 percent opposition the poll found last month.
The poll, which has a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points, found that 84 percent of likely voters would not be bothered by people using marijuana in their own homes, though 64 percent said they would object to people using it in public.
Respondents were evenly split on whether they had ever used marijuana, with 49 percent saying they had and 49 percent saying they had not.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-massachusetts-marijuana-idUSKCN12J1J2