Americans think it's safer to use marijuana than opioids to relieve pain, but they were less comfortable with children and pregnant women using pot to treat medical conditions, according to a new Yahoo/Marist poll released Monday. Among those answering the Yahoo/Marist poll, 83 percent said the drug should be legal nationally for medical treatment. And the survey respondents were about evenly divided on whether marijuana should be recommended for children if it were legal. But new U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has said marijuana is dangerous and marijuana changes by states should not be allowed. The Yahoo/Marist telephone poll of 1,122 adults was conducted last month and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.

Source: ABC News April 17, 2017 18:02 UTC