Nearly 60 percent of New Jersey adults support the legalization of marijuana, while nearly two-thirds of adults said they felt that a taxed and regulated industry would help the state, according to a Tuesday poll from Rutgers University Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling.
The poll, which surveyed 1,006 New Jersey adults between Oct. 12-19, found that 58 percent to 37 percent support legalizing marijuana for personal use. Thirty-seven percent did not support legalization.
Sixty-four percent of adults said they believe the state economy would benefit from the sale, regulation and taxation of recreational marijuana; 49 percent of respondents said they have already tried marijuana.
Another 79 percent of adults said they believed that people with convictions of small amounts of marijuana should be able to get those records expunged.