Scott Powers
A solid 69 percent of Florida registered voters say they would support Amendment 2 on the November ballot, which would broadly legalize medical marijuana in Florida, according to a new poll by Gravis Marketing.
The same poll also finds Floridians with mixed views on transgender restrooms, but not on locker rooms.
The poll, taken last Tuesday and Wednesday of more than 2,500 registered Florida voters, puts the approval rating well above the 60 percent needed to adopt Amendment 2 to the Florida Constitution.
The survey puts the issue well ahead of where a similar proposed amendment stood in Gravis polling in 2014. That amendment was narrowly defeated in the ballot box.
“Six months before the election in 2014, medical marijuana was around 57 to 58 percent. Now it’s well over 60 percent. It will be hard to defeat,” said Doug Kaplan, managing director for Gravis, a Winter Springs-based polling operation.
In 2014, Gravis was one of the few polling operations that showed that year’s medical marijuana amendment trailing, while other pollsters showed it solidly winning. It also was one of the few polling operations that specifically asked voters about the ballot measure itself, rather than whether they generally supported medical marijuana.
In 2014, the amendment got 58 percent approval, and so failed. At this time in 2014, Kaplan was predicting defeat. Not this time.
In this latest poll, 69 percent said they would support the measure to “legalize medical marijuana for individuals with debilitating medical conditions as determined by a licensed state physician.” Another 29 percent stated that they opposed, and 8 percent said they were uncertain.
Both the 2014 and 2016 ballot initiatives are being pushed by the John Morgan-led United For Care political committee.
Opposition to both measures comes from the Vote No On 2 campaign, led by Mel Sembler‘s Drug-Free Florida. That organization only began its opposition advertising a couple of weeks ago.
The Gravis survey was conducted using automated telephone calls and weighted by anticipated voting demographics, and Gravis claimed a 2 percent margin of error.
The same poll also showed Floridians split over the idea of where transgendered people should use the bathroom. Locker rooms, however, are another matter.
Thirty-two percent of those surveyed said they would strongly favor laws requiring transgendered people to use the public restrooms assigned to their birth genders, and another 14 percent stated that they would somewhat favor such a law. On the other side, 25 percent said they would strongly oppose laws requiring transgendered people to use the bathrooms of their birth genders, and 13 percent stated that they somewhat opposed. Another 16 percent said they were unsure.
When asked about locker rooms, there was no such split: 56 percent of those surveyed said they would support laws requiring transgendered people to use the locker rooms of their birth genders, and only 19 percent said they would oppose such laws.
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PhDScientist
May 22, 2016 at 11:53 pm
Medical Marijuana is a “Wonder Drug” for Cancer patients undergoing Chemotherapy, and the biochemicals in Marijuana fight Cancer six ways —
1. Medical Marijuana is anti-angiogenic — it prevents tumors from growing new blood vessel networks
2. It causes Cancer cells to undergo apoptosis, where the cells commit suicide, which is a way that many chemotherapeutic agents work, but its much more specific to only cancer cells so its much gentler on the rest of the patient’s body and doesn’t case secondary Cancers years later like many Chemotherapeutic agents do.
3. It causes Cancer cells to undergo autophagy, where the defective cells “eat themselves.”
4. It’s anti-metastatic — it stops Cancer from spreading.
5. Its anti-proliferative, It stops Cancer cells from over dividing.
6. Its synergistic with Chemotherapy and Radiation therapy, increasing their effectiveness.
Because it fights Cancer in multiple ways its much more difficult for the Cancer cells to mutate in a way that defeats the treatment — that’s one of the reasons that modern Chemotherapy uses multiple drug “cocktails,
Patients around the world are seeing amazing results against a wide range of Cancers, even at stage 4, using High Dose Medical Marijuana Oil Therapy (HDMMOT) — sometimes referred to as Ricks Simpson’s Oil after one of its early proponents.
We need to get large scale clinical trials of HDMMOT going IMMEDIATELY.
In a recent survey, 82% of American Oncologists said they wanted their Cancer patients to be able to use Medical Marijuana as part of their treatment regimen.
We need action of the federal level on this important issue NOW.
This year 1.7 Million Americans will be diagnosed with Cancer, and half of them will eventually die from it — after going through “Hell on Earth”
Every American with Cancer deserves the right to have safe, legal, access to Medical Marijuana.
Every. Single., One.
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