Colorado governor John Hickenlooper (Photo: Mike Johnston/Flickr)
A new poll suggests support for legal marijuana in Colorado has risen following the first month of retail sales.
Released on Monday, the Quinnipiac University poll shows 58 percent of Colorado residents support marijuana legalization. That number is up from 54 percent when the same poll was conducted last summer.
Amendment 64, the law that legalized recreational marijuana in Colorado, passed in November 2012 with 55 percent support.
On the other hand, 51 percent in the latest poll felt that marijuana legalization has hurt the state’s image. Only 10 percent said they had used recreational marijuana since sales began on January 1.
Indeed, even as the nationwide conversation begins to change tone, Colorado governor John Hickenlooper has shown little support for his own state’s position.
“I hate Colorado having to be the experiment,” he told local newspaper Durango Herald last month.
Ironically, Gov. Hickenlooper made a fortune as a cofounder of Wynkoop Brewing Company before entering a career in politics.
Still, Gov. Hickenlooper has acknowledged marijuana legalization in Colorado as “one of the great social experiments of this century” and, for his part, intends on seeing it done “properly.”
Source Leaf Science
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