{"id":114831,"date":"2022-08-18T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=114831"},"modified":"2022-08-18T17:33:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T21:33:21","slug":"gallup-americans-not-convinced-that-marijuana-benefits-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=114831","title":{"rendered":"(Gallup) Americans Not Convinced that Marijuana Benefits Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are evenly split in their views about marijuana&#8217;s effect on society, with 49% considering it positive and 50% negative. They are slightly more positive about the drug&#8217;s effect on people who use it, with 53% saying it&#8217;s positive and 45% negative.<\/p>\n<p>People&#8217;s own experience with marijuana is highly related to their views on both questions.<\/p>\n<p>Large majorities of adults who say they have ever tried marijuana &#8212; which is nearly half of Americans &#8212; think marijuana&#8217;s effects on users (70%) and society at large (66%) are positive.<br \/>\nConversely, the majority of those who have never tried marijuana think its effects are negative: 72% say this about its effect on society and 62% about its effect on users.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/396893\/americans-not-convinced-marijuana-benefits-society.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Americans Not Convinced Marijuana Benefits Society <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4zwuZA6yb4\">https:\/\/t.co\/4zwuZA6yb4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Riccardo C. Gatti (@RiccardoGatti) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RiccardoGatti\/status\/1560022016257835008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are evenly split in their views about marijuana&#8217;s effect on society, with 49% considering it positive and 50% negative. They are slightly more positive about the drug&#8217;s effect on people who use it, with 53% saying it&#8217;s positive and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=114831\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,209,99,104,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-americau-s-a","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-health-medicine","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114834,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114831\/revisions\/114834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}