COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – The latest Ohio Poll finds that a majority of Ohio voters favor both casino-style gambling and access to medicinal marijuana.
Six in 10 voters surveyed supported legalizing casinos, and 73% agreed that doctors should be able to prescribe marijuana for medical reasons.
The poll also discovered that 61% opposed legalization of marijuana for all adults. Once again, that strange moral dynamic kicks in that says if you’re going to smoke marijuana, you’d better not enjoy it! Somehow, most Ohioans believe that allowing the guy in a wheelchair to smoke a joint is perfectly reasonable, but if he passes that same joint to me, I’m a criminal. I’m far too healthy to be allowed to choose what I put in my own body, I suppose.
I don’t mean to rain on the medical parade. 73% support for medical marijuana is excellent no matter how you slice it. I just find it odd that the same majority that favors my right to blow my money at the craps table opposes my right to blow a reefer in my living room.
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as far as i see one our mane supporters for legalization in ohio,n.e. is bullyism at it”s finest.Example for instance congressmman Robert Hagen who”s been fighting for our right many of years now was assaulted recently in front of his family for unknown reasons.Tim Ryan who basically got into office for his role in the legalizing of cannibas for the ill,since he”s been in office i haven”t heard one fight from him to legalize.As far as i”m concerned elections are no more than whoever has the better bed side manners so to speak will be the one to win reguardless of their issues.After GWB was in office for 4 yrs. and we all saw him basically destroy everything president Clinton did the the better of our nation but did we vote him out?(NO) but now after just past a year everyone wants president Obama out of office along with congress.Now tell me could you resolve 8 yrs of corruption in just over a year in addition working with most of the people that was in office during the GWB era?I say we give the president a chance and not be so fast to dismiss.
I live in Ohio and I didn’t get asked anything about what I thought. How did this poll occur. Maybe I was just busy when it took place but I’d still like to add my Yes vote in on the legalization for marijuana.
They may be a little more conservative, especially when it comes to marijuana. If you look at the statistics, fewer of them have smoked it than boomers and adults who are younger than them. According to the 2007 NSDUH, less than half of those 30 through 39 had tried marijuana. A Good bit more than 50% of those 20 through 25 and 40 through 54 admitted that they had tried marijuana.
http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/NSDUH/2k7NSDUH/tabs/Sect1peTabs1to46.htm#Tab1.12B
There was a little bit of a “baby bust” in the early to mid seventies where fewer babies were born than before. I think it started in the late sixties, may have been the pill that did it. Any way, this group were teens and young adults in 1992 when per capita marijuana use hit its lowest point in the last thirty five years or so. They were just little kids when marijuana use peaked in 1979 and they were growing up during the Reagan “just say no” years when there was an awful lot of scare tactic propaganda about marijuana and nothing really to counter it. On surveys these people were more likely than people today to think of marijuana as a very dangerous drug and to disapprove of people using it.
Many of us boomers were hippies back in the day. I’d love to see a breakdown by decade of age. Just through observation, I’ve seen that many 30-40 year olds are way more conservative than the boomers. Course that ain’t statistical.
Looking at my post it’s a little confusing. The oldest baby boomer is 63 now. There are actually slightly more people 18 through 29 than 64 and older now, slightly more 18 through 29 than people older than baby boomers. It might appear to some that in my post I was saying that the 65 and older group is shrinking every year. But of course it is actually getting bigger. What is shrinking is the number of people born before the baby boom than began in 1946 and ended in 1964. The people born before the boom tend to be much less likely to support marijuana legalization than baby boomers and even more unlikely to support it than young people 18 through 29. Those 18 through 29 always seem to be the age group that supports legalization the most, but as they age they become less likely to support legalization. The trend since the early nineties has been for support for legalization to grow a little every year across all age groups, but not as much of course in the pre-boomer age group. They remain strongly opposed to legalization by and large. Boomers will start turning 65 in 2011 and we’ll start seeing more and more support for legalization in the 65 and older age group as the years go on. We may never even see support as high as 20% from those born before the baby boom, but they are dying off anyway. As the years go on they’ll have less and less impact on these polls, less and less power in our law making bodies, and less and less influence as voters on politicians.
Note that 87% of those 65 and older are opposed to legalizing marijuana while 59% of those 18 through 29 are for legalizing. There are sightly more Ohioans 18 through 29 than 65 and older and when you average their votes out it comes to about 37%. Overall 37% of Ohioans favored legalizing, with 37% of those 30 through 44 and 38% of those 45 through 64 for legalization. Those older than baby boomers cancelled out the 58% support from the 18 to 29 group. Only 12% of them supported legalization, and 72% were “strongly opposed.”
http://www.ipr.uc.edu/documents/op050809.pdf
The demographic breakdowns here are pretty close to what you see in national polls. Population-wise right now there are slightly more people in the 18 to 29 age group than in the 65 and older group. We have high support for legalizing marijuana from the 18 to 29 group, around 60%, but the low support from those older than baby boomers cancels out the support from those 18 to 29. The average between the 18 to 29 group and the 65 and older group ends up being slightly lower than the percentage of support from those 30 through 64.
This may seem a little cruel, but the good news is that those older than baby boomers who oppose us the most are dying off. The most powerful people in Congress and the Senate tend to be from their ranks. They’re still a very important voting block. They may only be 19% or so of voting aged Americans, but they actually go to the polls and vote. They’re two or three times as likely as those 18 to 29 to go to the polls on election day, especially for mid term elections all our lawmakers must face. So even though there may be slightly more people 18 to 29 than 65 and older, our lawmakers are a lot more afraid of those 65 and older than those 18 to 29.
Those older than baby boomers are dying off though. That’s just a fact. In 2000 they comprised about 28.3% of the voting aged public according to the 2000 census. Now it’s around 19%. According to census projections by 2015 they’ll only comprise about 12.5% of the voting aged public. A couple of years later they’ll be less than 10% of voters, and by 2025 they be less than 5.5% of voters. Their influence is waning quickly. It won’t be long now before support for legalization in the polls from those 18 to 29 starts increasing the overall average such that it is higher than what we see from those 30 through 64. There won’t be enough of those pre-boomers to cancel out the support from young people. (Except in the voting booths because old people are far more likely to actually vote than young people. Can we change this?)
Agreed.. Remember Ohio is one of the states that put Bushy in office to outsource all their factory/Mining jobs .. regardless legalized Medical Marijuana is basically legalized marijuana.. Remember… I STRONGLY SUFFER FROM ANXIETY!!!!!!!!!!!
Regardless 52% of Americans SUPPORT ITS OUTRIGHT LEGALIZATION trumps the moronic Buckeye fans.. Legalize gambling but not marijuana.. pfft.. I don’t give credence to the opinions of retards.