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Fifty-eight percent of Americans believe marijuana use should be legal, the third consecutive year of majority support. A decade ago, 36% favored legal marijuana, and in 1969, 12% did.

As some states have legalized marijuana, 47% of Americans say legalization will make driving in those states less safe. Half of Americans say it won't make much of a difference.

As Oregon becomes the fourth U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana use, 44% of Americans say they have tried marijuana. When Gallup began asking about pot use in 1969, only 4% admitted to having tried it.

In the U.S., 79% say driving while impaired by alcohol is a very serious problem for road safety, compared with 41% or less for other drugs. Young adults are the least likely to say driving while high on marijuana is a serious problem.

Declining support for the death penalty since the early 2000s is largely a result of lower support among Generation Z and millennials.

Americans have become significantly more likely to identify as liberal in their views on social issues over the past 25 years. Liberal views on economic issues, too, have increased, but still lean conservative.

Partisan differences have expanded over the past 20 years on some, but not all, core U.S. social and policy issues.

A slim majority of Americans, 51%, favor legalizing the use of marijuana -- similar to the 50% who supported it in 2011 and 2012, but down from a reading of 58% last year.

Fourteen percent of Americans say they use CBD-based products, and they are most likely to do so to relieve pain, anxiety and insomnia.

While 38% of U.S. adults admit they've tried marijuana, a much smaller percentage, 7%, say they currently smoke it. Fewer young adults have tried it today compared with in the 1970s and 1980s.