In a new statewide survey of almost 500 registered Massachusetts voters, a majority would support a ballot question to legalize marijuana.

Voters responding to the Western New England University poll are split along familiar party lines.

Overall, democrats favor easing restrictions on marijuana. A majority of republican voters oppose it.

But something else in the results surprised WNEU pollster Tim Vercellotti. “Forty percent of women were opposed, compared to twenty-nine percent of men,” Vercellotti says.

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