--- title: More Americans Want to Ban Unpasteurized Milk Than Marijuana description: Less than half of Americans want to ban marijuana canonical: https://time.com/3676131/marijuana-pot-unpasteurized-milk/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-21T13:26:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:37.503Z og:title: More Americans Want to Ban Unpasteurized Milk Than Marijuana og:description: Less than half of Americans want to ban pot og:url: https://time.com/3676131/marijuana-pot-unpasteurized-milk/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0b20682314e5ea9/6987681ee53aba96544d5d6f/marijuana-pot-weed.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: File picture shows marijuana plants at a indoor cultivation in Montevideo og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: More Americans Want to Ban Unpasteurized Milk Than Marijuana twitter:description: Less than half of Americans want to ban pot twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0b20682314e5ea9/6987681ee53aba96544d5d6f/marijuana-pot-weed.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # More Americans Want to Ban Unpasteurized Milk Than Marijuana > Sponsored content. 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A new service for delivering medical marijuana is being described as_ by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jan 21, 2015 1:26 PM UTC  Marijuana plants are seen at a indoor cultivation. Marijuana plants are seen at a indoor cultivation. Andres Stapff—Reuters by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jan 21, 2015 1:26 PM UTC It’s not hard to imagine: milk fiends buying illegal, unpasteurized milk in darkened back alleys. Shady dealers running shipments of raw milk across the Mexican-American border. A high-speed police chase down I-95, the suspects tossing gallons of unpasteurized milk out the window in a frantic effort to ditch the evidence. An underground black market for unpasteurized milk like the kind that exists for marijuana is, of course, absurd. But it’s still fun to imagine, because more Americans today want to ban the sale of raw milk than marijuana, according to a recent study. Some 59% of Americans support a ban on the sale of raw, unpasteurized milk, while just 47% support a ban on the sale of marijuana, according to [Oklahoma State University’s Food Demand Survey](http://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/foods%5Freport%5Fjanuary%5F2015.pdf). The U.S. currently has a patchwork of different laws regarding raw milk. [States like New York](http://www.realrawmilkfacts.com/raw-milk-regulations/state/idaho) and Iowa ban the retail sale of raw milk, while California and Idaho permit it. It’s hard to imagine Americans’ perceptions of safe and unsafe goods being the same 50 years ago. More than 80% of Americans support mandatory country-of-origin labels for meat and labels for food produced through genetic engineering. Almost 70% support calorie labels on restaurant menus, and more than 64% support calorie limits for school lunches. \[[_Hat-tip Washington Post_](http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2015/01/20/americans-are-more-scared-of-unpasteurized-milk-than-marijuana/)\] ## Transcript Getting medical marijuana from the dispensary to the front door just got a lot easier for San Francisco residents thanks to a new start up, but is it as smoking as everybody's saying? Eaze with a z obviously is a new startup that aims to give users a professional delivery service for their medical marijuana. With customers ordering online, and Eaze bringing it to their door step. The startup is already being billed as the Uber of Pot, referencing the popular startup car service. And local publications have run with it. But the only things Eaze seems to have in common with Uber are it's based online, and involves cars, just like most delivery services. So what does that even mean? As the Washington Post points out: It's worth noting that many, if not most, of the uber of whatever descriptions originate from the uber- ish companies themselves. Of course they do. Uber parallels are good for funding pitches. But calling something the blank of blank is far from a new phenomenon; especially in the text sector. Just in the last couple of months the startup world has brought us. The Twitter of radio. And the Twitter of messaging. That's in addition to: the Facebook of homes. The Facebook of neighborhoods. And just the general Facebook of real estate. Eaze can't necessarily stake a loan claim on being the uber of pot, because another online medical marijuana delivery company, called Grassp, is already claiming to be the original uber of pot. Either way, Eaze is, so far, only available to use through its website. 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