A newly released poll from the Pew Research Center found that “the vast majority of Americans” support legalizing marijuana in some form—with an accompanying analysis finding that backing for the reform “has increased dramatically in recent decades.”

The survey results, published on Tuesday, show that 55 percent of U.S. adults support legalizing cannabis for both recreational and medical use, and that another 33 percent say it should be legal for medical use only. A small minority of only 11 percent of Americans say marijuana should remain illegal across the board.

There is majority support for some level of cannabis legalization across party lines, with Democrats most strongly on board with the reform. Sixty-seven percent of Americans who identify with that part back legalization for any use, and another 27 percent want only medical marijuana legalize.

Among Republicans, 44 percent support legalizing both medical and recreational marijuana, while an additional 39 percent want to legalize medical use only.

“Notably, conservative and moderate Democrats (56%) and moderate and liberal Republicans (54%) express similar levels of support,” Pew said in its analysis.

“Two-thirds of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents favor legalization for both uses, compared with 44% of Republicans and GOP leaners.”

When it comes to age groups, support for full is strongest among young adults under the age of 30, with 63 percent in favor.

Black Americans (61 percent) are slightly more likely than whites (58 percent) to support broad legalization, while 45 percent of Hispanic Americans and 34 percent of Asian Americans favor the reform.

A separate marijuana question in the poll, which was asked as part of a broader survey in January and is only being released now, asked how people feel about the strictness of their own state’s cannabis laws.

“Americans are divided over whether marijuana laws in their state are too strict or not strict enough, according to the January 2026 survey,” Pew said. “More than a third of U.S. adults (36%) say these laws are about right. Another 21% say they are too strict, while 19% say they are not strict enough. About a quarter (24%) aren’t sure.”

Americans’ views on the matter differ from state to state. In places where cannabis is legal for both recreational and medical use, 47 percent said the law are about right, a quarter said they aren’t strict enough and just 7 percent said they are too strict.

In states where marijuana is criminalized for any use, four-in-ten say the laws are too strict, 22 percent believe they are about right and just 10 percent think they are not strict enough. About a quarter (27%) aren’t sure.

“In states where marijuana is legal for medical use only, views are generally similar to those in states where the drug is prohibited,” Pew said.

The cannabis data comes from survey of 8,512 U.S. adults, conducted from January 20 to 26, and has a margin of sampling error for the full sample of +/- 1.4 percentage points.

Americans’ views on marijuana legalization “have held relatively steady since 2019,” the research center said.

To that end, an earlier survey that Pew published last year similarly found that nearly nine in 10 Americans support legalizing marijuana in some form.

A separate poll that Pew published this year on Americans’ views about the morality of various activities showed that more U.S. adults say using marijuana is morally acceptable—or not a moral issue at all—than those who say the same about gambling, watching pornography, having an abortion or being gay.

Republicans were twice as likely as Democrats to say consuming cannabis is morally unacceptable, the survey showed.

Meanwhile, a YouGov survey published last month found that 59 percent of U.S. adults want to legalize cannabis—including 75 percent of Democrats, 50 percent of Republicans and 54 percent of independents.

Separately, a Gallup poll from late last year found that 64 percent of Americans now support legalizing marijuana.

Another recent survey showed that three out of five Americans say it should be legal for people to grow their own marijuana plants at home.