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US AR: Poll: 63 Percent Favor Medicinal Marijuana
ccguide Sunday 28 Oct 2001 Pubdate: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 Source: Southwest Times-Record (AR) Copyright: 2001 The Donrey Media Group Contact: Website: http://www.swtimes.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/529 Author: Johnathon Williams, The Morning News POLL: 63 PERCENT FAVOR MEDICINAL MARIJUANA The majority of Arkansans surveyed in a new poll favor the legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes, if its use is directed by a doctor. The third annual Arkansas Poll found that 63 percent of 767 state residents, questioned in a telephone survey, supported legalization of medicinal marijuana. Another 32 percent said they would not support such an action. The results of the poll were released Wednesday in Little Rock. The poll is created by faculty at the University of Arkansas and conducted by telephone with the help of students. Students spent about eight days conducting telephone interviews before finishing Oct. 17. Todd Shields, the chairman of the UA political science department, said the medical marijuana question yielded the most surprising results of any asked in the poll. Support for the idea came equally from people of separate ages, gender and income levels, he said. The question was included in the poll because of the possibility that it could be a ballot issue in the 2002 election, he said. In other topics, poll participants have been asked to name the single most pressing problem facing Arkansans. War and terrorism was identified this year by 12.5 percent of those polled. Answers to that question were spontaneous; participants were not prompted with a list of possible answers. War or terrorism had no presence when the same question was asked by pollsters in 1999 and 2000. This year, it came in second, behind unemployment or a lack of jobs, which was chosen by 21.1 percent as the most pressing problem. Education was third with 12.4 percent. Immigration was called most pressing by 0.8 percent, or six people. Health care in the state was said to need some reform by 73 percent of those asked, with 25 percent saying the current system is broken and needs major work. Twenty-four percent said the system is working pretty well. Several questions in the poll were related to the role women play in state and federal politics. Forty-four percent of those polled said the country would be governed better if more women held political office. Thirty-three percent said it would be governed worse. Seventy-six percent said they expect to see a woman president of the United States in the next 10 to 25 years. Eleven percent said never. Asked to label their political loyalties, 27 percent described themselves as Republican, up from 23 percent in 1999. Democrat was picked by 33 percent, down from 35 percent in 1999. Thirty-one percent chose independent, with another 5 percent choosing a category labeled "Other." The complete results of the Arkansas Poll can be viewed online at: http://plsc.uark.edu/arkpoll/ - --- MAP posted-by: Lou King
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