The solid conservative values of the United States Christian community and the teachings of Jesus Christ as illustrated in their holy Book seems to be fading away.
A recent survey shows that a slight majority of Americans support the legalisation of marijuana.
Now, the marijuana movement seems to have taken another step forward, with a survey showing that nearly half of all young Christians in the U.S. also favour the legalisation of illegal drugs.
In the survey, 45 percent of young people, who self-identified as Christians, support marijuana legalisation. Forty-nine percent of respondents say they are opposed to legalisation. Only 22 percent of elderly Christians who participated in the survey said they favour legalisation.
Interestingly, a high percentage of young Christians said that smoking marijuana is morally acceptable compared with the general population. Fifty-two percent said they are OK with marijuana, compared with 49 percent of all Americans.
Fifty-two percent of Christians who belong to an ethnic minority, said they smoked marijuana, compared with 44 percent of white Protestants and 40 percent of evangelical Protestants. These figures are in line with, or even greater than the average for all Americans, 42 percent of whom said they have tried marijuana.
Those who have smoked marijuana seem to have enjoyed the experience, with 65 percent of them in favour of legalisation. Similarly, 65 percent of those who have never tried marijuana oppose decriminalisation.
However, even among those who oppose the legalisation of marijuana, more than 60 percent are in favour of allowing it to be used for medical purposes when prescribed by a physician.
“Even though I do not support smoking of marijuana for many reasons, I support the legalisation of marijuana, since I believe that the government has no business telling adults what is moral and what is not morally acceptable, just like I wouldn’t want the government telling people that alcohol or cigarettes are not morally acceptable,” Buffy Tinsley, 36, of Minneapolis, Minnesota was reported to have said after learning about the recent survey.