Sixty-one percent of Americans think marijuana use should be legal, a five-point increase from last year and the highest percentage ever recorded in this poll.
And only 23 percent think legalizing marijuana leads to an increase violent crime.
The belief that pot should be legal has reached a new high in CBS News polls.
And women are now as much in favor of legal marijuana as men are; in previous years they were less so.
Even among those who think marijuana should be illegal, only half think the federal government should get involved with the states.
And most Americans also think marijuana is less dangerous than most other drugs, particularly those who say they have tried it.
The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus four percentage points. »
