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Most Ontario voters believe marijuana should be legal and that it should be sold by independent dispensaries or drug stores, not in the LCBO.

That’s according to a new Forum Research survey conducted on April 28, just over a week after the federal government announced its blueprint for legalization would land in spring 2017. Almost six in 10 — 56 per cent — of the 1,157 respondents said they approved of marijuana legalization, compared to about one third, or 36 per cent, who opposed it; approximately seven per cent had no opinion.

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Support hasn’t budged since December, when Forum last asked about legal weed: at that time, 56 per cent were in favour, and 36 per cent were opposed.

The number of people who would use legal weed is also much the same: 23 per cent in the April survey, versus 22 in December.

What has shifted is the location where people think the drug should be sold. Fewer respondents now feel the provincial booze retailer is the best home for dime bags.