Q poll shows Florida voters back recreational marijuana, Dems lead in Senate

Issue 3 would legalize marijuana for recreational and medical purposes and would build a new wholesale and retail infrastructure around the newly legal product. In Ohio, 59 percent of men support recreational marijuana with only 38 percent opposed, while women in the same state are 49 percent are against and 47 percent in favor.

In Quinnipiac’s how-would-you-vote match-up, Strickland was ahead by 9 percentage points in April, and 6 in June. “Not surprisingly support for the change is linked to age, with younger voters more likely to see personal use of pot as a good thing”. It just so happens that marijuana reform is very popular in those states according to a recent poll released by Quinnipiac University. Seniors oppose legalizing pot for personal use by a 56-to-39 percent margin. He has held onto a lead in polls conducted by Quinnipiac through the year, although the lead narrowed to a statistical tie in August.

For the latest data, pollsters surveyed voters from September 25 to October 5 on land lines and cell phones. And the margin of error in this poll is 2.9 percent, about matching Strickland’s narrow lead.

These questions of support were posed generally to registered voters in presidential swing states Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida and did not ask voters specifically about the legalization and commercialization ballot issue on which Ohioans are already voting for the November 3 election. In that poll, 44 percent of voters said they have used marijuana, 43 percent said pot use leads to other drug use, 76 percent said they’d be uncomfortable as a passenger in a vehicle driven by someone who has used moderate amounts of weed and 47 percent ranked marijuana as risky as alcohol while 36 percent viewed it less unsafe and 14 percent said it was more unsafe. Sittenfeld, a Cincinnati City Council member, is challenging Strickland in the Democratic primary in March.

“If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then the Red Planet might be the more spacey place”, Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll, said in a released statement.

– Voters approve 46 – 27 percent of the job U.S. Sen.

Gov. John Kasich received his highest approval marks to date, with 62 percent supporting his work in office.