British Columbians are more likely to endorse the facility’s operations and the concept of “harm reduction” than respondents in other provinces. Vancouver’s legal supervised injection site remains a touchy issue for one-in-four Canadians, but respondents in British Columbia clearly support its operations and disagree with the federal government’s attempts to shut it down, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found. In the online survey of a representative national sample of 1,000 Canadian adults, 43 per cent of respondents support the ... | Read More

As was the case last year, a majority of respondents voice support for legalizing marijuana, but not other illegal drugs. A large proportion of Americans acknowledge that the country has a serious drug abuse problem, but two thirds believe that the so-called "War on Drugs" has been ineffective, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found. In the online survey of a representative national sample of 1,003 adults, 64 per cent of respondents believe America has a serious drug abuse problem ... | Read More

Most respondents oppose making marijuana legal, as once suggested by the new interim chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. People in Great Britain are concerned about drugs, but few believe that legalising specific substances is the best course of action, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found. In the online survey of a representative national sample of 2,007 British adults, 56 per cent of respondents believe the United Kingdom has a serious drug abuse problem that ... | Read More

Two-thirds of respondents in the United States believe the “war on drugs” has been a failure. While people in the United States are worried about the country's drug abuse problem, they are evidently disappointed with the "War on Drugs", a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found. In a nationally representative sample of 1,004 American adults, 70 per cent of respondents believe we have a drug abuse problem in the United States that affects the entire country. A considerably smaller proportion of ... | Read More