Last month, state Rep. Mike Ball introduced a bill that proposed making medical marijuana legal in Alabama.

That bill could be considered soon by the Alabama Legislature. AL.com posted a poll on March 25 to gauge how readers feel about the issue.

We asked if medical marijuana should be legalized in Alabama, and 23,492 people voted in our unscientific poll.

Readers voted yes overwhelmingly, with 22,747 votes in favor, about 97 percent; the no votes totaled 745, or about 3 percent. The votes are not a representative scientific sampling of the population at large; it’s simply what our readers responded when we asked the question.

In a more detailed survey with multiple questions that drew an average of about 13,500 voters on each question, we asked readers if they considered marijuana a gateway drug, one that leads to usage of more dangerous drugs: 92 percent said no, and 8 percent said yes.

We also asked if readers if they thought smoking marijuana is a sin: 96 percent said no, 4 percent said yes.

We asked readers if they thought recreational marijuana use should be legalized in Alabama: 92 percent said yes, 8 percent said no.

We asked if marijuana was more dangerous than alcohol: 96 percent said no, 4 percent said yes.

All of those were an increase in positive feelings about marijuana from our last poll two years ago.

In 2017, AL.com asked the same questions and got a response from about 9,600 readers.

In that survey, 83 percent said marijuana was not a gateway drug; 12 percent said it was; 5 percent were undecided.

In 2017, 89 percent of readers who responded said smoking marijuana is not a sin; 7 percent said it was and 4 percent were undecided. That poll also asked if readers favored the legalization of medical marijuana: 86 percent said yes, 10 percent said no and 4 percent were undecided.