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POLL: Should marijuana be legal in all 50 states?

By: Tracy Simmons

Date:

April 26, 2013

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A survey released this week shows Americans remain divided over the legalization of marijuana.

According to the Public Religion Research Institute 45 percent of Americans favor making the use of marijuana legal, while 49 percent are opposed.

The study further showed 29 percent white evangelical Protestants, 40 percent of Catholics and 40 percent of minority Christians favor making the use of marijuana legal. Nearly half of white mainline Protestants favor making the use of marijuana legal, while 45 percent are opposed. The study also showed that 66 percent of religiously unaffiliated Americans favor making marijuana legal.

In November Washington voters legalized marijuana in this state.

Do you think it should be legalized across the country?

Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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