According to a recent Gallup poll, 29% of the general population supports legalization, but the number increases with education levels. In short, by the time they graduate, even more will be in favor of legalizing marijuana.)
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Gallup Poll Shows 73% Favor Medical Marijuana;
29% Favor Outright "Legalization"!
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Survey Links Freshmen, Conservatism
(Marijuananews note: I have included this excerpt to show the spin. The figures are in the article immediately below it. Notice the high level of Internet use. Can you say MarijuanaNews.com?)
April 6, 1999

By KALPANA SRINIVASAN Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Aside from the predictable bags of unwashed clothes and as yet-to-be-read books, this year’s college freshmen may have also brought home some surprises for spring break: conservative views on casual sex, abortion and other issues.

A comprehensive survey of this year’s college freshmen finds a host of areas where young adults are taking decidedly different turns on issues than previous generations of students. From the lowest support ever for casual sex and keeping abortion legal, to questions of law and order and even their goals in life, the differences are sometimes wide….

Some results from the 1998 survey of college freshmen:

• Nearly 83 percent of freshmen support the federal government doing more to control handguns.
• About 79 percent agree that employers can require drug tests of their workers.
  (Marijuananews note: Unless we know how that question was phrased, this tells us nothing.)
• Thirty-three percent believe that homosexual relations should be prohibited, but about 49 percent believe same sex couples should have legal status.
• Nearly 73 percent believe there is too much concern for criminals, and only 23 percent favor abolishing the death penalty.
• Less than 33 percent support legalization of marijuana.
  (Marijuananews note: Should we have expected that a majority of the freshmen would support legalization? Maybe the AP doesn't have access to its stories from last year!)
• About 82 percent attended a religious service in the past year, while 26 percent said they discussed religion over the past year.
• Freshman reported high use of the Internet for social and academic purposes. In the year before the survey, nearly 83 percent had used the Internet for research or homework, and 54 had visited an Internet chat room.

Source: Higher Education Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles.

The 1998 freshmen norms are based on the responses of 275,811 students at 469 of the nation’s two- and four-year colleges and universities. Colleges were chosen to represent a cross-section of the student population nationwide.