Latinos Support Legalizing Marijuana as Trend Grows Across the United States Elizabeth Llorente - Fox News Latino
go to original April 8, 2013

“People who say they have used marijuana in the past year did so both for medical reasons and ‘just for fun,’” the study's authors wrote. (Associated Press)

For the first time since attitudes began to be tracked, a majority of people in the United States say they now support making the use of marijuana legal, according to a new study.

Support for legalizing marijuana jumped higher for Latinos – 16 percent – since 2010 than it did in the general population, which saw a rise of 11 percent, according to the study, published by Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan research group.

More than half of Latinos – 51 percent – say that the use of marijuana should be made legal, slightly less than the 52 percent in the general population who said the same. But Hispanics were less likely – 34 percent – to say they have tried marijuana than blacks or whites, half of whom reported having tried it.

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