For the past two years, there has been a campaign to legalize medical marijuana in Florida. A proposed constitutional amendment that would have legalized it nearly passed in 2014, when 58 percent of voters supported the amendment, just two points shy of the 60 percent threshold.
It was a devastating loss, but it didn’t dissuade United for Care, the group behind the push. Last January, the group submitted a new version of the constitutional amendment and spent the past year gathering more than a million signatures to get the measure on the ballot this November. Nearly a million signatures have now been collected and sent to the Supervisors of Elections for verification.
Yesterday afternoon, Ben Pollara, the group’s campaign manager, announced that 637,326 petition signatures have already been verified. That means only 45,823 petitions are left. Assuming 683,149 can be verified, the amendment will appear on the ballot. Pollara expects confirmation very soon. [Read more at the Broward Palm Beach New Times]
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