While a Florida marijuana legalization initiative failed at the ballot last year, a new poll shows overwhelming bipartisan voter support for the reform—a positive sign for the campaign pushing a new version of the cannabis reform proposal ahead of next year’s election.
The University of North Florida (UNF) survey released on Tuesday found that 67 percent of Florida voters now back legalization, including 82 percent of Democrats, 66 percent of independents and 55 percent of Republicans.
A majority of voters did support the Smart & Safe Florida cannabis proposal during last November’s election, but it failed to reach the 60 percent threshold needed to enact a constitutional amendment at the ballot under state law.
The new poll, however, indicates that the policy change enjoys more than enough support at this point to get across the finish line as the campaign works to place an amended legalization measure before voters in 2026.
“Support for recreational marijuana, and medical before that, has always been high in Florida, which is why its failure to pass last year as Amendment 3 came as a surprise to some folks,” Michael Binder, faculty director of UNF’s Public Opinion Research Lab (PORL), said in a press release
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