America has seen the future, and it is high.
Fifty-eight percent of U.S. adults say recreational marijuana will be legal nationwide in the next 20 years, according to a new Bloomberg Politics poll. That includes 13 percent who say it will take 20 years, 26 percent who say it will take 10 years, 17 percent who say it’s just five years away, and two percent who say it will happen in the next year.
“Our civilization can’t look away from the fact that ⅛marijuana3/8 is not bad and the only reason we don’t have it is because of the archaic mentality,” said Dakota Daniels, a 21- year-old waiter from Pueblo, Colorado, who participated in the poll. He said he thinks people will embrace regulation – as opposed to bans – as Colorado did in 2012, because it allows states to set safety standards and reap tax revenue.
Not everyone is convinced that legal recreational weed is a foregone conclusion. Thirty-two percent said recreational marijuana will never be legal in all 50 states.
“There’s so many people that have seen what drugs and alcohol have done to their families that I don’t think it will ever ever ever be legalized in this country,” said Chris Harmon, 42, a sales rep in New Philadelphia, Ohio.