Americans’ views on the risks associated with marijuana are changing, according to a recent poll from Politico and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The poll, led by Robert Blendon, Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis, found that only one in five Americans believe marijuana is very harmful to people who use it.
In the poll, which included responses from 1,007 Americans, 52% of respondents said they considered e-cigarettesvery harmful and 80% of respondents considered tobacco cigarettesvery harmful.
“Ten years ago, we were jailing people for marijuana,” Blendon said in a November 5 Politico article. “Now people see this as not essentially very harmful.”
Read the Politico article: POLITICO-Harvard poll: Despite vaping crisis, Americans view e-cigarettes as far more dangerous than marijuana