Only One Out of Three Mexicans Wants to Legalize Weed Manuel Rueda - ABC News
go to original July 27, 2013

The war on drugs has killed at least 60,000 people in Mexico over the past six years. But most people in this country still don't want marijuana to be legalized, according to a poll released this week.

The poll was conducted by the De la Riva Group, a market research firm based in Mexico City. For this survey, they interviewed 800 people from all over the country and only 32 percent of them said that marijuana should be legalized.

Researchers think that such lukewarm support for legalization could be rooted in two beliefs that are prevalent among Mexico's population. One is that people think that the legalization of marijuana would increase consumption. The other is that it would lead to greater levels of drug-related violence. In fact, 52 percent of interviewees said that legalization would make violence worse.

Such perceptions completely contradict what many drug war experts say about marijuana legalization.

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