{"id":46707,"date":"2014-11-04T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/questions_about_legalizing_recreational_marijuana_on_the_ballot_in_florida_\/"},"modified":"2014-11-04T17:00:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T17:00:45","slug":"questions_about_legalizing_recreational_marijuana_on_the_ballot_in_florida_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46707","title":{"rendered":"Questions about legalizing recreational marijuana on the Ballot in Florida, Alaska, Oregon and D.C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Oregon, one recent poll by SurveyUSA showed supporters for marijuana legalization leading by 52 percent to 41 percent; another by Elway Research, for The Oregonian, found them behind by 46 to 44. The only recent public polls in Alaska were conducted by interested parties; unsurprisingly, pro-legalization forces found the question ahead, and opponents found it behind.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal in the District of Columbia is highly likely to pass: An NBC4\/Washington Post\/Marist poll found support at 65-33 in September. However, Congress can overrule Washington voters\u2019 choice to legalize, and Representative Andy Harris, a Republican from Maryland, has signaled his intention to push Congress to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Florida will vote on medical marijuana. Because the state\u2019s proposal is a constitutional amendment, it must get 60 percent of the vote to pass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/04\/upshot\/marijuana-on-the-ballot-in-florida-alaska-oregon-and-dc.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Oregon, one recent poll by SurveyUSA showed supporters for marijuana legalization leading by 52 percent to 41 percent; another by Elway Research, for The Oregonian, found them behind by 46 to 44. The only recent public polls in Alaska<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46707\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,99,168,114,151,619,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}