Based on Muhlenberg School Public Well being Program’s 2023 Pennsylvania Health Survey, assist for hashish legalization within the state fell from 56% final 12 months to 50% this 12 months – marking the primary time in a decade the survey has discovered a lower in assist for the reforms.
The survey discovered 38% opposed hashish legalization with 18% neither in favor nor opposed, and 1% uncertain.
In 2013, the ballot discovered 33% in favor and 40% against broad hashish legalization within the Keystone state, and in 2021, the survey discovered 58% of respondents backed the reforms – the very best stage recorded for the Well being Survey.
The ballot notes that the drop in assist for hashish legalization “could merely be the product of a sampling error.”
The ballot additionally discovered a majority of respondents had been involved with the rise in hashish use amongst younger adults (18-22 years previous) – with 22% of respondents saying they had been “very involved,” and 33% “considerably involved.” Twenty-seven % of these polled stated they had been “not too involved,” and 18% stated they had been “under no circumstances involved.”
Earlier this month, Democratic State Sen. Sharif Road and Republican State Sen. Dan Laughlin launched a measure to legalize hashish within the state. That measure is at the moment within the Senate Legislation and Justice Committee.
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