About seven in ten American adults say they’re in favor of having designated marijuana consumption areas at casinos and resorts—and two in five would be more inclined to visit casinos if cannabis use was allowed, according to a new survey.
The poll from the University of Nevada Las Vegas’s Cannabis Policy Institute (CPI) showed roughly 70% of adults 21 and older support incorporating marijuana lounges or consumption areas at casino-resorts. A majority also backs the idea of having designated rooms where cannabis use is permitted, similar to how some hotels permit tobacco use in certain rooms.
Almost 60% of adults said their gambling habits wouldn’t change if they used marijuana, while just over 20% said they’d gamble more and just under 20% said they’d hit the slots less. Over 60% said the activity of gambling would not impact their cannabis use.
“The motivation for the study was that there’s this perception that if people are consuming cannabis, their gaming desires would be suppressed,” CPI Director Riana Durrett said during a presentation of the polling results earlier this month. “But we haven’t found literature to support that, and that’s why we wanted to do research on whether people are gambling less or more or if it doesn’t change their gambling habits.”
CPI Research Director Marla Royne Stafford said that regulators are seeing “a relationship between these two activities.”
