Texas voters strongly support legalizing medical marijuana yet are largely unaware of their own state’s existing program that provides limited access to cannabis for certain patients, according to a new poll.
The survey by Fabrizio, Lee & Associates, which served as the chief pollster for President Donald Trump’s campaigns, found that 75 percent of Texas registered voters favor “legalized marijuana in Texas for medical use”—including 85 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Republicans and 81 percent of independents.
“Medical marijuana is very popular with Texas voters—not only do 3-in-4 voters support its use but majorities of each partisan group also support legalized medical marijuana,” the firm wrote in a polling memo.
That said, only 11 percent of respondents said they have recently seen, read or heard anything about the Texas Compassionate Use Program (TCUP), which provides legal access to low-THC medical cannabis products for patients with a limited number of conditions and which lawmakers passed legislation to modestly expand last session.
When told more about the program, three out of five voters say they are concerns about “delays and obstacles have slowed the expansion” of TCUP, which has resulted in “limiting access for patients who may benefit from medical marijuana.”
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