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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.

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.

A majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana for the first time in Gallup's trend dating back to 1969. Republicans and older Americans still oppose legalization, but most young adults, Democrats, and independents favor it.

Fifty-four percent of Americans think the death penalty is morally acceptable, an all-time low in Gallup's 20-year trend.

Fifty years after Woodstock became the symbol of 1960s social upheaval, Gallup trends highlight how much has changed in U.S. society.