Monthly Archive for October, 2009
British scientists are working on a system which should allow the elderly to buy body parts “off the shelf” and even regenerate their own damaged joints and hearts. As well as new harder wearing artificial hip and knee joints, their ultimate ambition is to fix up the body with customised replacement parts grown to order. They have already carried out human trials on heart valves which are still working four years after they were transplanted.
PRINCETON, NJ—Gallup’s October Crime poll finds 44% of Americans in favor of making marijuana legal and 54% opposed. U.S. public support for legalizing marijuana was fixed in the 25% range from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, but acceptance jumped to 31% in 2000 and has continued to grow throughout this decade.
Public opinion is virtually the same on a question that relates to a public policy debate brewing in California—whether marijuana should be legalized and taxed as a way of raising revenue for state governments. Just over 4 in 10 Americans (42%) say they would favor this in their own state; 56% are opposed. Support is markedly higher among residents of the West—where an outright majority favor the proposal—than in the South and Midwest. The views of Eastern residents fall about in the middle.
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