Survey results on cannabis laws

Here are the detailed results of the UMR Research Ltd poll on "Toughening laws on cannabis". The poll was conducted in August 2007.

Using a 1 to 5 scale where 1 means make the law a lot tougher and 5 means make the law a lot more liberal, to what extent do you think the current law on marijuana should be changed. 3 is the mid-point and means no change to the current law.

 Number of people answering 1 2 3 4 5 Unsure
  Percent
All 750
 25
 9
 46
 8
 11
 1
Area
       
Auckland 254
 25
 8
 44
 9
 12
 2
Provincial 345
 27
 9
 44
 8
 11
 1
Christchurch 76
 27 9
 49
 5
 9
 1
Wellington 75
 14
 10
 55
 11
 7
 3
Rural 125
 26
 9
 46
 6
 13
 0
Sex
       
Male 359
 26
 10
 42
 8
 13
 1
Female 391
 24
 7
 49
 9
 9
 2
Age group
       
Under 30
 157
 20
 5
 45
 9
 16
 5
30-44 225
 17
 8
 49
 12
 13
 1
45-59 196
 27
 12
 45
 9
 6
 1
60 plus
 172
 38
 8
 43
 3
 8
 0
Occupation
       
Professionals, managers
 209
 26
 11
 47
 9
 6
 1
Technicians, associate professionals 93
 12
 6
 50
 11
 20
 1
Clerks 39
 19
 7
 54
 9
 11
 0
Sales and service workers
 54
 22
 8
 43
 7
 11
 9
Blue collar
 115
 25
 14
 38
 9
 13
 1
Students 39
 25
 0
 50
 14
 8
 3
Retired 116
 37
 6
 48
 3
 6
 0
Homemaker 47
 23
 6
 51
 7
 13
 0
Not employed
 25
 30
 2
 30
 20
 13
 5
Self employed
 9
 21
 21
 36
 0
 22
 0
Personal income
       
Less than $15000 114
 20
 8
 50
 12
 8
 2
$15001-25000 122
 30
 7
 44
 6
 13
 0
$25001-30000 50
 21
 7
 48
 6
 12
 6
$30001-40000 86
 25
 16
 39
 5
 15
 0
$40001-50000 88
 16
 6
 52
 12
 11
 3
$50001-70000 119
 22
 7
 50
 10
 11 0
More than $70000 94
 22
 12
 45
 10
 10
 1
Ethnicity
       
Pacific Island
 35
 48
 4
 38
 0
 10
 0
Maori 82
 19
 7
 45
 8
 21
 0
Non-Maori 668
 26
 9
 46
 8
 9
 2

Let's talk about pot


"If 25 years of smoking dope has addled my brain, I must have been an intellectual giant in my youth."
Tim Shadbolt, Author Bullshit and Jellybeans

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"Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about the good musicians, but the jazz type."
Harry J. Anslinger, Federal Bureau of Marcotics, 1948

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"The nuns did not know what they were and assumed they were large decorative plants."
A police official in Athens tells of a Greek Orthodox nunnery that employed gardeners who turned out to be cannabis growers using the nunnery as their personal plantation.

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