The legalization of recreational marijuana use and gambling in Texas has faced uphill battles for years in the Republican-controlled Legislature, but a new poll shows a solid majority of likely voters in Bexar County support allowing both.

Results from a new Bexar Facts-KSAT-San Antonio Report 2021 Q1 poll show that more than six-in-10 likely voters are in support of legalizing and taxing recreational marijuana and gambling for adults in Texas.

The state allows very limited medicinal marijuana and a few forms of gambling, like horse races, but there has been a push in this year’s legislative session to move further and legalize recreational use of marijuana and gambling as a source for more state revenue amid the COVID-19 pandemic and budget shortfalls.