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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 95. Do you think the use of marijuana should be made legal or not?
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 |
| Total | 27486 | 2085 | 118 | 12672 | 25997 | 4032 | 72390 |
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(q) 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