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Medical Marijuana Proposal Polls Well in Early 2016 Survey

July 31, 2015 - 8:15am

Despite a similar measure going down in 2014, a new poll shows Florida voters back a state constitutional amendment expanding medical marijuana use in the Sunshine State. St. Pete Polls took a poll on behalf of Saint Petersblog which was released on Friday showing 68 percent of Florida voters back the proposed amendment while 25 percent are opposed and 7 percent are undecided. To amend the state Constitution, a proposal must get 60 percent at the ballot box. 

Activists are already gearing up for another try after Amendment 2, which would have allowed more medical marijuana use, lost narrowly in 2014, getting only 58 percent. Amendment 2 polled well at the start of the election cycle but support dropped off in the months before the general election. 

The new poll shows Democrats strongly behind the proposal, with 86 percent of them supporting it while only 10 percent oppose. Republicans are far more divided with 48 percent of them backing it while 44 percent stand against it. Voters outside the major parties break for it 72 percent to 22 percent. 

Men back the proposal 71 percent to 24 percent. Women are less likely to support it but still break for it 65 percent to 28 percent. 

The measure gets more than 60 percent in all TV markets outside of Fort Myers where it gets 58 percent support.

More than 70 percent of voters younger than 70 support the proposed amendment. Voters 70 and older give it less support though 58 percent of them back it while 34 percent oppose it. 

The poll of 2,788 Florida voters was taken from July 18-28 and had a margin of error of +/- 1.9 percent. 

“The poll was conducted through a Web-based email polling system,” St. Pete Polls noted in a memo accompanying the poll. “The results were then weighted to account for proportional differences between the respondents' demographics and the demographics of the active registered voter population for the state of Florida. The weighting demographics used were: political party, race, age, gender and media market. The voters polled were chosen at random within the registered voter population within the state of Florida.The random sample used was made up of a sampling of registered voters from the state of Florida.”

 

Reach Kevin Derby at kderby@sunshinestatenews.com or follow him on Twitter: @KevinDerbySSN

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The majority of people who support it have been misled into believing that it will help someone who's health can only be healed with marijuana. The real truth is that the people who are spending millions to get it passed want it because there is money in it. Follow the money trail and don't be duped! We already have medical marijuana legalized but it must be for medical purposes which is as it should be. Have you seen what young people look like when they get stoned on marijuana in Colorado? Is this what we want? WHY do you suppose even the Governor of Colorado is now so sorry he allowed it to pass? Wake up and see the truth. It is a lot easier to prevent this from passing than it is to try to revoke it once it's passed. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!. So many youths moved to Colorado that they have a huge homeless problem that they don't know what to do with as well.

You are so wrong as to be EVIL! Even when your lies and propaganda are shown to be just that, you keep repeating them. That is evil. Try educating yourself about facts and truths instead of the lies somebody has fed you. You mentioned already legal Medical marijuana? Nobody in Florida has recieved a single dose. Your entire comment is built on lies! You are evil for saying them over and over. Lies!

Don't be so hard on her, she's that one missing link in life that comes out from nowhere and says, see I told you so. Ha Ha Ha after reading her comment I darn near cried laughing so hard!

ForThePatients!

Hey Fire. I wouldn't be nearly as hard, if this was her first time pushing the NO crowds propaganda. I have answered and proven her wrong multiple times, yet she keeps pushing the same lies and we know that if some uninformed folks hear those same lies enough times, those lies become their "truth". We are all entitled to our own opinions, we are not entitled to our own facts. She lives in a fantasy world, that has had real world effects. Time to confront those lies. ForThePatients!

Prob having a drink as she writes the bull.

It will be on the ballot in 2016. For those who wonder about it. Stoned, A Doctors Case for Medical Maijuana by David Casarett M.D. Yea, a fact based look at Medical Marjuana by a Doctor. It is a real look at the good and the bad. ForThePatients!

No body ask me

That's because you are an asshole, Fred. Thanks for playing.

Pete .. my Primary Care Dr. with the Veterans Administration " BACK'S IT " Yes Medically as well brings a lot more Relief than some of the Medications out !!!!

Pete, ya need to chill dude. If YOU do not want to smoke it, then don't vote FOR it! Really easy man. In the meanwhile, relax, take it easy, don't stress over what you have no control over. In fact, bring on the recreational topic and let's vote it in, as good ol' PETE says, "it's coming".

"Medical" my butt! The "medical" marijuana will be proliferated so that it is as hazardous on the highways as excessive alcohol consumption. Seen it. The prominent lawyers pushing "medical" marijuana should have their law degree and business license revoked! They are not for the people, they are for themselves and their fame and revenue and maybe the secret backers of the "medical" marijuana -should prevail- scheme. Then on to legalizing recreational marijuana. It's coming. Pay attention.

You really need to educate yourself, hazardous highway have been debunked by the national highway and safety board, no difference between a "high " driver and a sober driver, as for the rest of your rant, botanically cannabis is a herb as a herb it is food for us. ALL cannabis use is medical as it feed the endocannaboid system inside our bodies, By the way all mammals have one. the only thing worht paying attention to are the lies being told and by whom. Here is the truth cannabis is a herb gen 1:29 tells us that herb are food for us, DEA administrative judge Andrew Young ruled cannabis in its natural form is the safest substance known to man. ANYTHING else is Prohibition propaganda!

Yea, driving in Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska is a bitch... Except that isn't. There is no correlation between bad driving and marijuana use.

Early Propaganda Piece.... The polls said it was a Slam Dunk Win in 2014 too.... Till people actually voted...

As soon as I saw the word "Polls" in the headline, I knew it was some of your "work" Kevin... 68% of St Pete "speaks" for 68% of the St. Pete "area, BUT NOT for the rest of Florida. (Maybe we should divide Florida in half up around Ocala and make two States out of it: North Florida and "Sanctuary-South" Florida (which will become known as "mini-California-on-the-East-Coast"... Obama will probably "vacation" there then and spend some of his newly found 'vacation millions', thereby giving John Morgan some respite in his pocketbook).

what the hell are you even saying?!?

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