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What you will learn in this post:
Methodology
| Methodology: NuggMD.com conducted this poll using its opt-in email list of 2.2M cannabis users from Dec 11 to Dec 18. It is non-scientific and contains selection bias. | ||
| P (population size) | 35,000,000 | Yahoo News/Marist polling on national cannabis use |
| N (sample size) | 19,335 | Size of distribution to NuggMD.com's email list |
| n (respondents) | 795 | Number of respondents |
| Confidence level | 95% | Per SurveyMonkey Sample Size Calculator |
| Margin of error | 3.5% | Per SurveyMonkey Sample Size Calculator |
Survey Results
| 1) If the DEA reschedules cannabis to Schedule 3, how do you expect this action will personally affect you as a patient? (n:795) | ||
| n: | % | |
| It would make it harder to get cannabis | 220 | 28% |
| It would make it easier to get cannabis | 200 | 25% |
| It wouldn't change my level of access | 372 | 47% |
| I don't use cannabis | 3 | 0% |
| 2) Would you rather use FDA-approved cannabis products sold at pharmacies or traditional botanical cannabis products sold at legacy cannabis dispensaries? (n:795) | ||
| n: | % | |
| FDA-approved product | 142 | 18% |
| Traditional botanical products | 612 | 77% |
| Neither | 41 | 5% |
| 3) Would you prefer that there be one national market for the cannabis trade or many different state markets? (n:795) | ||
| n: | % | |
| One big, national market | 215 | 27% |
| Each state runs its own separate state market | 552 | 69% |
| Other | 28 | 4% |
| 4) Do you trust dispensaries to pass on to consumers any tax savings brought about by new regulations? (n:795) | ||
| n: | % | |
| Yes ("1") | 558 | 70% |
| No ("0") | 237 | 30% |
| 5) If your only option to purchase cannabis legally was to buy it at a pharmacy with a prescription, what would you do? (n:795) | ||
| n: | % | |
| Buy it from a pharmacy | 434 | 55% |
| Use the illicit market to obtain cannabis | 256 | 32% |
| Not use anything | 51 | 6% |
| Other | 54 | 7% |
| 6) Do you trust current state tracking and tracing regulations to keep black-market cannabis product out of the legal market? (n:789) | ||
| n: | % | |
| Yes ("1") | 362 | 46% |
| No ("0") | 427 | 54% |
| Non responsive | 6 | N/A |
| 7) Do you trust the existing, state-mandated testing systems to provide clean cannabis that’s safe to consume and properly labeled? (n:789) | ||
| n: | % | |
| Yes ("1") | 642 | 81% |
| No ("0") | 147 | 19% |
| Non responsive | 6 | N/A |
| 8) Rescheduling cannabis to Schedule 3 would not remove criminal penalties for selling recreational cannabis. Removing it from the Controlled Substances Act would remove the penalties. In light of this fact, do you prefer Schedule 3, or removal from the CSA? (n:785) | ||
| n: | % | |
| REschedule to Schedule 3 | 116 | 15% |
| DEschedule (i.e., remove from CSA) | 669 | 85% |
| Non responsive | 10 | N/A |
| 9) Do you trust the federal government to impartially enforce the penalties for illegally selling Schedule 3 cannabis products, or do you believe the existing pattern of racially disparate enforcement will continue? (n:778) | ||
| n: | % | |
| Yes, I trust the government to impartially enforce penalties. | 134 | 17% |
| No, I believe the existing pattern of racially disparate enforcement will continue. | 644 | 83% |
| Non responsive | 17 | N/A |
