However full legalisation depends on approval of a bill being examined by the Congress.
The NOP survey found that 51% opposed legalisation, compared with 37% who were in favour.
This compared with 66% against legalisation and 26% in favour in its 1996 survey.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has indicated he backs the legalisation of civil unions.
Not all those problems will melt away with legalisation but they may become easier to manage.
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But hectoring from American officials is less constructive than demand-reduction or legalisation mixed with discouragement.
Against these arguments, the case for legalisation comes in two parts: the ideological and the pragmatic.
However, we reach a different conclusion to you and find that legalisation is not the solution.
Legalisation might encourage legitimate drug companies to try to improve the stuff that people take.
Danny Kushlik, from the pro drug-legalisation charity Transform, said that treatment was not about achieving abstinence.
And an opinion poll for the Independent on Sunday found resistance to the legalisation of cannabis wavering.
The legalisation of trade in rhino would make overnight millionaires of these key figures in South Africa.
But many conservative lawmakers denounce a path to legalisation for undocumented immigrants as an "amnesty" for lawbreakers.
Any honest proponent of legalisation would be wise to assume that drug-taking as a whole would rise.
Islamic countries share its hostility even to the legalisation of cannabis, as do Russia, China and Japan.
The Federal Council of Medicine called for the legalisation of terminations during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
His calls for an end to foreign entanglements and the legalisation of drugs are popular with the young.
Legalisation would work only if those who took advantage of this were held accountable for their own welfare.
But during a visit to Mexico on Monday, Mr Biden had said the US remained opposed to legalisation.
Legalisation might reduce both supply (pushers by definition push) and demand (part of that dangerous thrill would go).
But little is likely to happen without that legalisation of the land occupation.
Hence the second argument: legalisation offers the opportunity to deal with addiction properly.
The Economist believes that cocaine's legalisation would be less costly than failed prohibition.
In a provocative paper based on game theory, Mr Basu argues for the legalisation of some kinds of bribe-giving.
No, not use of amongst investors and analyists, but by the near legalisation in Colorado and Washington states?
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However, it does not call for the decriminalisation or legalisation of most drugs.
It may back medical prescription of heroin, but wholesale legalisation is another matter misguided in theory and impossible in practice.
But those promoting legalisation were kept firmly outside the debate in the assembly.
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"I think we have to be conscious of the legalisation that we have and use it when necessary, " he said.
Asked about the legalisation of same-sex marriage and adoption in France, he said other countries should respect Russia's "moral standards".
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