A majority of D.C. voters want marijuana legalized in the District, according to a Washington Post-NBC4-Marist poll.
Of likely voters polled, 65 percent are in favor of Initiative 71, which would legalize the growing of no more than six cannabis plants and possession of up to two ounces of marijuana. That number goes up to 71 percent when just looking at white voters and down to 56 percent when looking at just black voters. Support for the initiative is lowest in Wards 7 and 8.
The effort to legalize pot in D.C. met its first organized opposition yesterday in the form of Two Is Enough D.C.. Organizers admitted to getting a late start, “but it’s better to start late than never.”
While D.C. voters have made up their mind about pot, they are overwhelmingly undecided about the first elected attorney general. Of likely voters, 57 percent are undecided between Lorie Masters, Karl Racine, Edward “Smitty” Smith, Lateefah Williams and Paul Zukerberg. Zukerberg, who led the legal battle for an elected attorney general, is polling the highest with 14 percent of likely voters.