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Florida's marijuana legalization initiative fails to pass

  • Bias Rating

    Center

  • Reliability

    25% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -57% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Only companies already licensed to sell medical marijuana would have been allowed to sell recreational marijuana at first.
51% : Amendment 3 would have legalized recreational marijuana, allowing adults 21 and older to possess up to three ounces of marijuana and five grams of concentrated THC.
38% : (Illustration: Lex Villena; Ylivdesign, Tyler Oneill | Dreamstime.com)A Florida ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana failed to hit the supermajority threshold required to pass, dealing a high-profile defeat to the most well-funded legalization campaign in U.S. history.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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