Florida: Backroom Briefing - A better shot for pot?
Floridians overwhelmingly favor medical marijuana. Again.
Just two years after a push for a constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana fell short — and with another push for pharmacological pot on deck for this year’s elections — a survey indicates the idea might have enough support to get added to the state Constitution when voters head to the polls in November.
In a poll released this week by the Saint Leo University Polling Institute, 68.1 percent of respondents said they strongly or somewhat agree with the statement, “The Florida Legislature should approve medical marijuana for Florida resident use.” Only 27.6 percent of those polled said they strongly or somewhat disagree with the idea.
The online poll of 540 state residents, which was conducted from March 13 to March 17, has a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.
That would seem to put a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana...
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