Young Republicans are cool with legal pot

Millennials are the driving factor behind the rapid rise in support for legal marijuana in the U.S. And in the latest sign of the changing times, even a significant majority of young Republicans — 63 percent to be precise — now favor legalization, according to Pew.

By comparison, only 31 percent of all Republicans support marijuana legalization.

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