Back in 2012, Oregon tried to legalize recreational marijuana use much like Washington would. It didn’t happen.

This year, however, might be different.

According to a recent poll conducted by DHM Research for Oregon Public Broadcasting and Oregon’s Fox 12 – which was released yesterday – 52 percent of the 516 likely voters reached by phone said they supported Oregon’s Measure 91, which would legalize recreational pot use in the state. Meanwhile, 41 percent opposed the measure, and seven percent remain undecided.

In other words, Oregon’s pot legalization effort is leading, but not by much. And as The Portland Tribune reports, the fate of the measure is likely to come down to just the demographic you’d expect … youngsters (relatively speaking).

“DHM pollster John Horvick says the balance rests with groups that historically have low participation in elections: Voters ages 18-34, who favor Measure 91 by 70 percent; independents, 68 percent, and first-time and low-frequency voters, 63 percent,” the Portland Tribune’s Peter Wong writes. “Horvick says if more of those voters cast ballots, Measure 91 is more likely to win, but if they don’t, Measure 91 could fail.”

One person who’d be happy to see Measure 91 bite the dust in Oregon is Kevin Sabet, a well-known anti-pot crusader who has spoken to Seattle Weekly in the past. In an appearance earlier this year detailed by The Oregonian, Sabet expressed many of the same concerns he did in Washington prior to our state’s passing of I-502.

“Folks think they are voting for allowing otherwise responsible adults to grow a little bit of pot in their backyard and smoke a little weed without having the cops on their back. I don’t think we fully realize as a country what we are getting into,” Sabet told a gathering of drug addiction treatment professionals, prosecutors, police and social service providers, according to the Oregonian. “This is not about your nice neighbor who likes to smoke a joint after work once a week. It’s really about creating the next Big Tobacco, an industry that thrives off of addiction.”