Should marijuana be made legal

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Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question 95. Do you think the use of marijuana should be made legal or not?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	don't know	no answer	should be legal	should not be legal	not available in this year	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	-	30	3	275	1196	-	1504
1974	1484	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	-	72	4	301	1113	-	1490
1976	-	50	2	416	1031	-	1499
1977	1530	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	-	45	23	447	1017	-	1532
1980	-	45	3	364	1056	-	1468
1982	1860	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	-	52	1	324	1222	-	1599
1984	-	59	8	332	1074	-	1473
1985	1534	-	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	-	26	7	263	1174	-	1470
1987	-	56	2	300	1461	-	1819
1988	484	38	4	171	784	-	1481
1989	502	31	6	169	829	-	1537
1990	473	27	5	146	721	-	1372
1991	500	40	5	182	790	-	1517
1993	549	52	1	234	770	-	1606
1994	981	93	11	457	1450	-	2992
1996	979	99	2	492	1332	-	2904
1998	921	117	6	525	1263	-	2832
2000	921	111	5	597	1183	-	2817
2002	1853	61	-	306	545	-	2765
2004	1936	73	1	292	510	-	2812
2006	2521	161	-	672	1156	-	4510
2008	658	116	2	496	751	-	2023
2010	667	117	1	603	656	-	2044
2012	636	100	4	586	648	-	1974
2014	851	111	2	870	704	-	2538
2016	911	110	3	1126	717	-	2867
2018	785	112	4	938	509	-	2348
2021	-	-	-	-	-	4032	4032
2022	2337	81	3	788	335	-	3544
2024	2357	84	1	594	273	-	3309
Total	29843	2169	119	13266	26270	4032	75699

Values

• 1 should be legal

• 2 should not be legal

• NA(d) don't know

• NA(i) iap

• NA(j) I don't have a job

• NA(m) dk, na, iap

• NA(n) no answer

• NA(p) not imputable

• NA(r) refused

• NA(s) skipped on web

• NA(u) uncodeable

• NA(x) not available in this release

• NA(y) not available in this year

• NA(z) see codebook