Florida voters wanted legal weed and abortions after six weeks but they wont get it – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
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Florida voters wanted legal weed and abortions after six weeks — but they won’t get it.

A majority of voters supported Florida’s amendments 3 and 4, ballot initiatives that would have legalized recreational marijuana and allowed abortions up to 24 weeks.

But neither ballot initiative garnered 60 percent of the vote — the threshold needed to fulfill Florida’s supermajority requirement. Ironically enough, the 60 percent requirement was enacted after a 2006 referendum... by just 57 percent of voters.

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