CBS poll: Majority favors marijuana legalization for first time!

For the first time since the CBS News Poll began asking the question, a majority of Americans (OK, I agree, it's just a "slight" majority, but dammit it's finally MORE than 50%) now favor the legalization of marijuana use! Fifty-one percent say they think the use of marijuana should be made legal, while 44 percent do not.

Public opinion on this issue has changed dramatically over the past few years:  in October 2011 a slight majority (51 percent) opposed making marijuana use legal, and as recently as April 2013 public opinion was divided on this issue (45 percent supported, 45 percent opposed). Interestingly, in July 1979, when CBS News first asked the question, 69 percent thought marijuana use should not be made legal and only 27 percent thought it should be made legal.