The GOP's Tipping Point on Weed

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Trump posted on Truth Social earlier this month that he will be voting for the initiative.
55% : The same may hold for recreational marijuana.
51% : It's about freedom," Portnoy said, encouraging viewers to vote yes on an amendment that would legalize recreational cannabis in Florida, before blowing smoke into the camera.
51% : Until a critical mass of red states embraces recreational weed, it's hard to see anything changing.
46% : Earlier this year, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bill allowing the sale of weed, making a claim that recreational marijuana is linked to "increased gang activity and violent crime" -- a link that researchers are still divided over.
26% : It's a concern shared by Trump himself, who last month posted that Florida must ensure that "we do not smell marijuana everywhere we go, like we do in many of the Democrat run Cities."
13% : For his part, Trump said in 2015 that recreational marijuana is "bad, and I feel strongly about that."

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