Florida: Medical Marijuana And The '16 Presidential Election

[Jacob Redmond]

The real question may not be whether a medical marijuana amendment will pass (recent polls show medical marijuana is supported by 70 percent of Floridians) but whether such an amendment will impact the 2016 presidential election.

It is true that most amendments don't impact elections at the top of the ticket. That is because most constitutional amendments are issues that motivate the base of both major parties but don't bring out new voters. A medical marijuana amendment is different.

There were roughly 800,000 signed petitions collected to get the medical marijuana amendment on the ballot in 2014. Almost 49 percent of those signatures came from people who had never voted in a nonpresidential election. And 78.6 percent of those new voters were either Democrats or independents. In short, the medical marijuana amendment brought out new voters - and the overwhelming majority of those voters were not Republican.

It is no secret

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[Happy Hemper]

This initiative will not make it onto the 2016 ballot unless the petition to place it on the ballot receives enough signatures. All Florida citizens that are registered to vote can and should sign the petition which can be found here at United for Care - People United for Medical Marijuana.