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A solid 69 percent of Florida registered voters say they would support Amendment 2 on the November ballot, which would broadly legalize medical marijuana in Florida, according to a new poll by Gravis Marketing.
The same poll also finds Floridians with mixed views on transgender restrooms, but not on locker rooms.
The poll, taken last Tuesday and Wednesday of more than 2,500 registered Florida voters, puts the approval rating well above the 60 percent needed to adopt Amendment 2 to the Florida Constitution.
The survey puts the issue well ahead of where a similar proposed amendment stood in Gravis polling in 2014. That amendment was narrowly defeated in the ballot box.
"Six months before the election in 2014, medical marijuana was around 57 to 58 percent. Now it's well over 60 percent. It will be hard to defeat," said Doug Kaplan, managing director for Gravis, a Winter Springs-based polling operation.
In 2014, Gravis was one of the few polling operations that showed that year's medical marijuana amendment trailing, while other pollsters showed it solidly winning. It also was one of the few polling operations that specifically asked voters about the ballot measure itself, rather than whether they generally supported medical marijuana.
In 2014, the amendment got 58 percent approval, and so failed. At this time in 2014, Kaplan was predicting defeat. Not this time.
In this latest poll, 69 percent said they would support the measure to "legalize medical marijuana for individuals with debilitating medical conditions as determined by a licensed state physician." Another 29 percent stated that they opposed, and 8 percent said they were uncertain.
Both the 2014 and 2016 ballot initiatives are being pushed by the John Morgan-led United For Care political committee.
Opposition to both measures comes from the Vote No On 2 campaign, led by Mel Sembler's Drug-Free Florida. That organization only began its opposition advertising a couple of weeks ago.
The Gravis survey was conducted using automated telephone calls and weighted by anticipated voting demographics, and Gravis claimed a 2 percent margin of error.
The same poll also showed Floridians split over the idea of where transgendered people should use the bathroom. Locker rooms, however, are another matter.
Thirty-two percent of those surveyed said they would strongly favor laws requiring transgendered people to use the public restrooms assigned to their birth genders, and another 14 percent stated that they would somewhat favor such a law. On the other side, 25 percent said they would strongly oppose laws requiring transgendered people to use the bathrooms of their birth genders, and 13 percent stated that they somewhat opposed. Another 16 percent said they were unsure.
When asked about locker rooms, there was no such split: 56 percent of those surveyed said they would support laws requiring transgendered people to use the locker rooms of their birth genders, and only 19 percent said they would oppose such laws.
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The same poll also finds Floridians with mixed views on transgender restrooms, but not on locker rooms.
The poll, taken last Tuesday and Wednesday of more than 2,500 registered Florida voters, puts the approval rating well above the 60 percent needed to adopt Amendment 2 to the Florida Constitution.
The survey puts the issue well ahead of where a similar proposed amendment stood in Gravis polling in 2014. That amendment was narrowly defeated in the ballot box.
"Six months before the election in 2014, medical marijuana was around 57 to 58 percent. Now it's well over 60 percent. It will be hard to defeat," said Doug Kaplan, managing director for Gravis, a Winter Springs-based polling operation.
In 2014, Gravis was one of the few polling operations that showed that year's medical marijuana amendment trailing, while other pollsters showed it solidly winning. It also was one of the few polling operations that specifically asked voters about the ballot measure itself, rather than whether they generally supported medical marijuana.
In 2014, the amendment got 58 percent approval, and so failed. At this time in 2014, Kaplan was predicting defeat. Not this time.
In this latest poll, 69 percent said they would support the measure to "legalize medical marijuana for individuals with debilitating medical conditions as determined by a licensed state physician." Another 29 percent stated that they opposed, and 8 percent said they were uncertain.
Both the 2014 and 2016 ballot initiatives are being pushed by the John Morgan-led United For Care political committee.
Opposition to both measures comes from the Vote No On 2 campaign, led by Mel Sembler's Drug-Free Florida. That organization only began its opposition advertising a couple of weeks ago.
The Gravis survey was conducted using automated telephone calls and weighted by anticipated voting demographics, and Gravis claimed a 2 percent margin of error.
The same poll also showed Floridians split over the idea of where transgendered people should use the bathroom. Locker rooms, however, are another matter.
Thirty-two percent of those surveyed said they would strongly favor laws requiring transgendered people to use the public restrooms assigned to their birth genders, and another 14 percent stated that they would somewhat favor such a law. On the other side, 25 percent said they would strongly oppose laws requiring transgendered people to use the bathrooms of their birth genders, and 13 percent stated that they somewhat opposed. Another 16 percent said they were unsure.
When asked about locker rooms, there was no such split: 56 percent of those surveyed said they would support laws requiring transgendered people to use the locker rooms of their birth genders, and only 19 percent said they would oppose such laws.
News Moderator: Christine Green 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Medical Marijuana Measure Winning Solidly in New Gravis Poll
Author: Scott Powers
Contact: Scott Powers
Website: Florida Politics
