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Find out where Americans stand on four key issues that were on the ballot in several states: marijuana legalization, the death penalty, gun control and increasing the minimum wage.

Two in three Americans describe the problem of illegal drugs as extremely or very serious in the U.S., down from 83% in 2000 and 73% in 2007.

Sixty percent of Americans favor making marijuana use legal, the highest level of support in Gallup's 47-year trend.

Thirteen percent of Americans say they currently smoke marijuana, nearly double the percentage found three years ago. Meanwhile, 43% say they have tried it, similar to last year.

More than four in 10 Americans see prescription painkillers and heroin as a "crisis" or "very serious problem" where they live. Americans blame multiple factors for prescription opioid addiction and abuse.

Fifty-seven percent of Democrats say they are liberal on social issues, while a smaller 41% say they are liberal on economic issues. Republicans are more likely to say they are conservative on economic (73%) than on social issues (62%).

Gallup reviews the top stories of 2015, including Americans' views of Bernie Sanders and the Tea Party movement, what employees want from their managers and how government became the most important problem in the U.S.

Fifty-eight percent of Americans believe marijuana use should be legal, the third consecutive year of majority support. A decade ago, 36% favored legal marijuana, and in 1969, 12% did.

In a highly watched debate, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton presented their different policy plans. Gallup assesses what the American public thinks about major ideas presented by these Democrats.

Reflecting a gradual shift since the 1990s, more Americans now say government should not favor any set of values (51%) than say it should promote traditional values (43%). In most recent years, Americans have been divided on this.