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The percentage of U.S. adults identifying as "liberal" grew by a percentage point in 2017, while "conservatives" fell by a point, narrowing conservatives' edge to single digits for the first time.

The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign launched a set of television ads this year aimed at debunking teens' perceptions that marijuana is a harmless drug. The timing is good: government data show that marijuana use is on the rise among U.S. ...

Canadians today have a more liberal point of view regarding marijuana use than they did in the midst of the swinging '70s.

A record-low 26% of Americans favor a ban on handguns in the U.S. Also, for the first time, Americans are more likely to oppose (53%) than favor (43%) a ban on assault rifles. More broadly, Americans' support for stricter handgun laws and ...

A recent Gallup study supports the idea that teens who drink or use marijuana are more likely than other teens to exhibit signs of alienation -- they more frequently express negative thoughts about themselves and contemplate their own deaths.

In 1999, a third of Americans told Gallup that they had tried marijuana at some point. Whom do the data reveal to be more likely to have imbibed? Republican or Democrat? City slicker or rural resident?

By the mid-1980s, the introduction of crack cocaine turned youth drug use into a truly terrifying issue. Crack was cheap, plentiful and hideously addictive. By the last decade of the millennium, it appeared that fewer people were using drugs. ...

The war on drugs has been raging for decades. There is no sign of victory, or even detente. Since 1969, the first year Gallup asked about illegal drug use, Americans have grown increasingly more concerned about the effects of drugs on young ...

Are kids who talk with strangers on the Internet more likely to engage in other risky behaviors? A Gallup Youth Survey sheds some light on this question.

By an 8-0 vote on Monday, the Supreme Court struck down state laws legalizing the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Despite supporters' claims that marijuana can help reduce pain associated with diseases such as cancer, glaucoma, and ...