Despite 2024 setbacks, drug policy is still on a long-term trend toward reform

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Also like Colorado's initiative, the Massachusetts measure would have authorized state-licensed businesses where adults could use the covered psychedelics under the supervision of trained "facilitators.
53% : They included legalization of recreational marijuana in 11 states, authorization of medical use in eight, decriminalization of low-level drug possession in Oregon, approval of "psilocybin service centers" in the same state, and decriminalization of five naturally occurring psychedelics in Colorado.
50% : In fact, the marijuana initiative was just as popular in Florida as Donald Trump, despite the state's increasingly red political demographics.
35% : Legalization of recreational marijuana lost in Florida, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
28% : The appeal of legalization in Florida is consistent with national polling data indicating that Republicans, notwithstanding the backlash epitomized by Gov. Ron DeSantis' odor-focused opposition to recreational marijuana, are turning against pot prohibition.

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