Christopher Reid, 54, a U.S. Military veteran, relaxes in a hammock alongside do-it-yourself indicators supporting Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and Florida’s Amendments 3 and 4, which might legalize leisure marijuana and enshrine abortion rights within the state, respectively, throughout from a polling place on the Coliseum in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida on Tuesday.
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A poll query that might have legalized leisure use of marijuana in Florida didn’t clear a 60% threshold essential to move, in line with a name from The Related Press.
The coverage, opposed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and supported by former President Trump, would have approved the state’s medical marijuana growers and retailers to promote to shoppers.
Florida voters authorized a medical marijuana poll measure in 2016. This 12 months supporters of the coverage funneled greater than $100 million campaigning for the difficulty, probably the most spent on a poll query in U.S. historical past. The overwhelming majority of that cash got here from Trulieve, the state’s largest medical marijuana operator.
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Democratic state officers largely supported it, Republicans opposed it.
Earlier than this 12 months’s elections, 24 states and the District of Columbia had legalized marijuana for leisure use. 13 of these insurance policies had been authorized by way of poll measures. Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota are additionally asking voters to weigh in on leisure marijuana this 12 months. In Massachusetts, voters will think about legalizing plant-based psychedelic medication.
