Thou shalt not: Religiosity and attitudes toward marijuana legalization

Krystosek, Daniel James

doi:10.1016/j.ijlcj.2016.08.001

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“…Intimacy is one of the essential elements necessary to strengthen a marital relationship, creating more love and avoiding separation. Therefore, two of the most critical human needs are a reliable emotional connection and a secure attachment with a life partner, which influence the lives of married couples and family connections (Krystosek, 2016). Attachment theory relates to relationships between adults (Juffer et al, 2017).…”

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Religious Affiliation, Daily Spirituals, and Private Religious Factors Promote Marital Commitment Among Married Couples: Does Religiosity Help People Amid the COVID-19 Crisis?

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Religious studies are a vital branch of social science that seeks to explain the beliefs of human society and deals with the practices and beliefs of individuals. This distinctive study focuses on such influential aspects of a healthy life, which could play a vital role in the marital quality and matrimonial commitment of individuals. The study principally focused on inspecting the role of religiosity in healthy marital commitment among individuals. It is a distinctive and central value in regulating a healthy social life. This research designed a conceptual model for assessing marital commitment, and the study model comprised two primary variables. The study received datasets through a survey questionnaire based on participants from five private and public sectors. The research study conducted an empirical analysis to test the proposed conceptual framework. The findings exhibited that the value of the R2 model was 0.484, meaning the level of religiosity had a substantial impression on healthy and lasting marital commitment. According to the final outline of the model factors associated with building religious support factors (β = 0.491), the marital commitment had a better and healthier impact. The goodness-of-fit of the measurement of the conceptual model showed a value of 0.51, which indicated that the theoretical model had sufficient consistency and rationality, and accurately fitted the data. Such an advanced statistical model is missing from the previous literature. The study results provide helpful insight to elucidate the social dynamics of marital commitment. The findings designate that religious practices strengthen and promote nuptial commitment. The study is novel in the context of religiosity impact on martial commitment with a cultural background of Pakistan. The generalizability of the study does not apply to the entire population or other regions. Future studies can investigate other religious variables to explore further research findings. The findings are helpful for decision-makers and policymakers to concentrate on marital issues and challenges confronted by couples worldwide.

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Religious Affiliation, Daily Spirituals, and Private Religious Factors Promote Marital Commitment Among Married Couples: Does Religiosity Help People Amid the COVID-19 Crisis?

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“…For example, experiential factors, such as current and past drug use, may drive increased approval for different regulation models (Ellis et al, 2019). In an opposing direction, other correlates, such as religiosity, particularly among Catholics and Protestants—religious groups that publicly oppose cannabis use (Felson et al, 2019; Steinman et al, 2008)—may serve to diminish support for full legalization, but perhaps, such attitudes encourage other models of regulation (Krystosek, 2016). Not least, given the emphasis on federal regulation, there is a need to also account for public attitudes about the federal government, views about states’ rights, and civil liberties, especially when it comes to the Republican versus Democrat divide.…”

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Legalize It, Criticize It, or Something Else? Americans’ Attitudes Toward Federal Recreational Marijuana Legislation (RML)

Mancini

Budd

2022

Crime & Delinquency

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Recreational marijuana legislation (RML) has been enacted at the state-level but not federally. Given the link between public opinion and RML, we examine 2021 national poll ( N = 995) data that assessed views about different types of proposed federal actions concerning cannabis. Less than half of Americans preferred full legalization, 21% approved of medical legalization only, 23% believed in states’ rights, and 11% supported the current prohibition. Using multinomial logistic regression modeling, respondents who associated legalized recreational marijuana with adverse/negative effects were less likely to favor full legalization. In contrast, respondents who associated legalized recreational marijuana with beneficial effects were most supportive of full legalization. Uncertainty surrounding cannabis shaped preferences but not as dramatically as having a clear opinion.

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“…Steinman et al, 2008; Wallace et al, 2007), and Gritsenko et al (2020) found the same in Russia. Krystosek (2016) investigated how different forms of religious belief and practice influence attitudes to cannabis policy, and his most complex statistical model found that social participation and belief in the literalness of the Bible as God's word predicted support for cannabis criminalization. Social control via religious institutions therefore seems to explain support for criminalization at least to some extent.…”

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Racial and religious motives for drug criminalization

Johnstad

2023

Drug Science, Policy and Law

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The world has a long-standing system of drug control intended to suppress the use of a range of psychoactive drugs on the basis that such use is very harmful both to the users themselves and to their social surroundings. This perception of harmfulness has a long medical history, but recent research indicates that many forms of illicit drug use are not more harmful than the use of alcohol and tobacco. This article analyzes the historical and normative background for the apparently exaggerated assessments of drug harms on which the regime of drug control is founded. Starting from the observation that the drugs that have been exempted from this criminalization regime are those that were integrated in European cultures during the early modern era whereas the drugs criminalized under this regime lack such a history of European acceptance, the article discusses racial and cultural (especially religious) prejudice as a foundation for the exaggerated perceptions of drug harms. It finds that such prejudice is well-attested in the historical literature and seems to have contributed substantially to the formation of the international drug control regime. In sum, this article argues that drug prohibition was first introduced in the early modern era on racial and religious grounds and that the influence of these prohibition motives can be traced, directly and indirectly, all the way to the present day. This influence may explain why the health risks associated with illicit drug use are still often exaggerated in contemporary drug harms research.

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Thou shalt not: Religiosity and attitudes toward marijuana legalization

Cited by 5 publications

References 31 publications

Religious Affiliation, Daily Spirituals, and Private Religious Factors Promote Marital Commitment Among Married Couples: Does Religiosity Help People Amid the COVID-19 Crisis?

Religious Affiliation, Daily Spirituals, and Private Religious Factors Promote Marital Commitment Among Married Couples: Does Religiosity Help People Amid the COVID-19 Crisis?

Legalize It, Criticize It, or Something Else? Americans’ Attitudes Toward Federal Recreational Marijuana Legislation (RML)

Racial and religious motives for drug criminalization

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