Here’s a fun fact from the 2014 election: More Floridians voted for medical marijuana Amendment 2 () than voted for incumbent Governor Rick Scott (who won).
Itap strange but true. And because activists were pushing medical cannabis in the form of a state constitutional amendment they needed 60 percent of the vote — and only saw 58 percent, with 99 percent of precincts reporting on Wednesday.
The number of voters who wanted legal medical marijuana in Florida: . The number of voters who reelected Governor Scott: .
While the push for medical marijuana in Florida failed, Oregon, Alaska and Washington DC on Tuesday.
So medical marijuana received nearly 500,000 more vote than Governor Scott — 498,340 to be exact, and thatap still with 1 percent of precincts not reporting. Surely those are the kinds of numbers to inspire another push for medical marijuana in the Sunshine State in 2015 or 2016, as .
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