A College of North Florida poll launched Thursday discovered 70% of respondents would again a constitutional modification to legalize hashish for grownup use. The extent of help is increased than the 64% recorded by the college’s Public Opinion Reseach Lab (PORL) in November 2019 however decrease than the 76% of help PORL present in February 2022.
In an announcement, Dr. Michael Binder, PORL school director and professor of political science, mentioned the survey outcomes present that if a hashish legalization query is put to voters subsequent yr “it has an excellent likelihood of reaching the 60% supermajority wanted to move.” Nevertheless, Binder mentioned it’s a “massive if” whether or not the query makes it to ballots.
Activists in Florida, led by the Good and Protected Florida marketing campaign, are pushing to get the difficulty on 2024 ballots. In January, the committee had gathered greater than 148,000 legitimate signatures to place the query earlier than voters. The marketing campaign would want to submit a complete of 891,589 signatures to get the difficulty on 2024 ballots and would have to submit 222,898 signatures to set off a Florida Supreme Court docket evaluation of the proposal’s wording on the poll.
The measure, “Grownup Private Use of Marijuana” would enable people 21 and older “to own, buy, or use marijuana merchandise and marijuana equipment for non-medical private consumption by smoking, ingestion, or in any other case,” in accordance with measure language submitted to the state Division of Elections.
The PORL ballot discovered 76% of Democrats “strongly” or “considerably” backed the reforms, together with 57% of Republicans, and 78% of voters with no occasion or third-party affiliation. One other 22% of Democrats “strongly” or “considerably” opposed the reforms, together with 41% of Republicans, and 21% of voters with no occasion or third-party affiliation.
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