Split on whether recreational marijuana should be legal

BY BRIAN MURPHY

As more states than ever have legalized the recreational use of marijuana, the Trump administration has promised to enforce federal law and crack down on drug use. It is a fitting state of play as Americans remain deeply divided on whether or not the drug should be legal for adults to use.

Forty-nine percent of American adults support legalizing marijuana for recreational use and 47 percent oppose, according to a new poll from Yahoo News and Marist Poll. The groups surveyed 1,122 adults for the “Weed & the American Family” survey, which has a 2.9 percent margin of error.

Four states (California, Massachusetts, Nevada and Maine) approved recreational marijuana usage in the 2016 election, pushing the total of states where pot is legal to eight plus the District of Columbia.

The Obama administration allowed states to pursue their own pot agendas, but the Trump administration has promised to enforce federal law. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a longtime pot opponent, said last year that “good people don’t smoke marijuana” ...

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