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Marijuana legalization might be a popular policy issue in recent polls, but most Americans don\u2019t think cannabis itself is \u201ccool,\u201d according to a new survey. In fact, marijuana is considered less cool than things like sourdough bread, country music, math, word games and reading books.<\/p>\n
The YouGov poll looked at public opinion on the subjective concept of coolness\u2014with findings that might challenge conventional thinking. When it comes to a wide range of commodities and activities, marijuana stood out as a comparatively lame, falling near the bottom of the cool list despite being commonly associated with popular cultural figures, political movements and lifestyles.<\/p>\n
If that comes as a surprise to people, they wouldn\u2019t be alone. In a separate question in the new survey, respondents overrated how cool other people think marijuana is as compared to their own views.<\/p>\n
Overall, just 36 percent of American adults described marijuana as cool, with 13 percent saying it is \u201cvery cool\u201d and 23 percent grading it as \u201csomewhat cool.\u201d Another 10 percent weren\u2019t sure, while 55 percent said cannabis isn\u2019t cool\u2014with 35 rating it as \u201cnot cool at all\u201d and 20 percent believing it is \u201cnot very cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
The survey listed a total of 36 things or activities that respondents were tasked with rating on a coolness scale. Marijuana was was the fourth to last on that list, with just guns, sports betting and cryptocurrency considered less cool.<\/p>\n
Perhaps as surprising as the relative un-coolness of cannabis were some of the items that ranked as significantly more cool. Among the picks that a majority of adults described as either very or somewhat cool were science (87 percent), outer space (83 percent), reading books (81 percent), tea (65 percent), math (59 percent), sourdough bread (59 percent), country music (56 percent) and avocados (51 percent).<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nVia YouGov.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cThe results suggest the typical American is a bit of a square,\u201d YouGov\u2019s senior data journalist David Montgomery wrote. However, \u201cthere are many activities that Americans are less likely to consider cool than to think other people think are cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
To that point, the survey\u2019s cannabis finding showed that it\u2019s somewhat common for people to overestimate how cool other people view marijuana. Just over one-third of adults said they themselves think cannabis is cool, but the respondents on average said they expected about half of other people (49 percent) to regard it as cool.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nVia YouGov.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The poll<\/a> involved interviews with 2,236 U.S. adults from April 9-17, with a +\/- 3 percentage point margin of error. That\u2019s a relatively common margin for online surveys. But as Montgomery conceded, it\u2019s worth noting that, in this poll, the adults who were asked to judge what\u2019s cool and what\u2019s not cool are also adults who voluntarily elected to take an online survey in the first place.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a polling report from the Pew Research Center released in March found that Americans across every demographic\u2014age, gender, religion and political affiliation\u2014all agree that using marijuana is not morally wrong<\/a>. However, Republicans are still twice as likely as Democrats to say consuming cannabis is a moral no-no.<\/p>\n Pew also released a poll last year that showed an overwhelming majority of Americans\u2014nearly 9 in 10\u2014support legalizing marijuana in some form<\/a>.<\/p>\n An earlier Pew survey from 2024 separately\u00a0highlighted views on the societal impacts of recreational legalization<\/a>, and a majority (52 percent) said the reform is \u201cgood\u201d for local economies. A 42 percent plurality additionally agreed that legalization would make the criminal justice system \u201cmore fair.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Americans Say Marijuana Is Less Cool Than Math And Country Music\u2014But Is Cooler Than Guns Or Cryptocurrency, Survey Shows<\/a> appeared first on Marijuana Moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Marijuana legalization might be a popular policy issue in recent polls, but most Americans don\u2019t think cannabis itself is \u201ccool,\u201d according to a new survey. In fact, marijuana is considered less cool than things like sourdough bread, country music, math, word games and reading books. The YouGov poll looked atContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":86034,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[99,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86035,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86033\/revisions\/86035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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