Florida hasn’t moved toward making cannabis legal for recreational adult use yet, but a new poll suggests voters would have no issue with it.
A survey released Tuesday by the University of North Florida’s Public Opinion Research Lab revealed three in four Floridians are ready to legalize pot.
“Previous polls we conducted have shown support in the mid-60s for marijuana legalization, but Floridians are now highly supportive of recreational marijuana,” noted UNF PORL’s Michael Binder.
The “overwhelming majority” of respondents, or 76%, support allowing people to possess small amounts of cannabis. Just 20% of Floridians oppose it.
The idea has been broadly popular for some time, but support for legalized marijuana increased 12 points since a poll on the same topic in late 2019.
The most supportive group of cannabis legalization in the UNF poll was neither Democrats nor Republicans, but non-party affiliated voters. A full 90% of that cohort wants legalized weed, up 26 points from UNF’s 2019 poll.
Democrats continue to message around cannabis legalization, and 76% of their voters want it, tracking with the overall statewide average, and only up three points over 2019. [Read more at Florida Politics]
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