{"id":113171,"date":"2015-04-16T19:54:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T01:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/coloradans-still-high-on-marijuana-legalization\/"},"modified":"2015-04-16T19:54:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T01:54:38","slug":"coloradans-still-high-on-marijuana-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/coloradans-still-high-on-marijuana-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Coloradans still high on marijuana legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d8284d73-a120-45fa-a0ba-68ffb9bad8cb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d8284d73-a120-45fa-a0ba-68ffb9bad8cb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d8284d73-a120-45fa-a0ba-68ffb9bad8cb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d8284d73-a120-45fa-a0ba-68ffb9bad8cb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"400\" height=\"311\" alt=\"A new poll suggests Coloradans still support legalizing the drug.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A new poll suggests Coloradans still support legalizing the drug.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Ed Andrieski\/Associated Press file photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday indicates that 62 percent of voters still back the first-in-the-nation experiment, compared to 34 percent who don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>The result shows an uptick from a February Quinnipiac survey, in which 58 percent of said they support legalization, while 38 percent opposed.<\/p>\n<p>The Quinnipiac poll also indicated that legalization hasn\u2019t caused a surge in use, with only 18 percent of Colorado voters saying they tried it since it became legal. There\u2019s even wider support for medical marijuana, with 89 percent of Colorado voters backing medical legalization, while only 8 percent oppose.<\/p>\n<p>Coloradans legalized recreational marijuana in 2012, with 55 percent supporting and 45 percent opposing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll suggests Coloradans still support legalizing the drug.Ed Andrieski\/Associated Press file photo The Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday indicates that 62 percent of voters still back the first-in-the-nation experiment, compared to 34 percent who don\u2019t. The result shows an uptick from a February Quinnipiac survey, in which 58 percent of said they support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[94,13,135],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-113171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-colorado-state-government","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-marijuana"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113171"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=113171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}