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Voter Data Shows Trump Is Just as Popular as Marijuana in Republican States

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 01/20/2017 - 09:21

The results of the 2016 election tell us being a Republican and a marijuana legalization advocate are no longer mutually exclusive, if the labels ever were to begin with.

Eight US states voted on marijuana legalization ballots in the 2016 Election. Five of them — Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Montana, and North Dakota — turned red for Trump. Of those five, four states also legalized cannabis in some form, the .

"In each case, with the exception of Arkansas, the cannabis initiatives received almost as many or more votes than Trump garnered," the Marijuana Business Daily's Eli McVey writes.

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We don't know how many people who cast ballots for Trump also voted in favor of legalization. But the data from the Marijuana Business Daily would suggest red states with marijuana legalization initiatives on the ballot showed support for both the president-elect and legal weed.

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