Cannabis for President 2016

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During the 2016 general election, nine states had ballot initiatives for to loosen their marijuana laws. Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada voted on legalization. Arkansas, Florida, and Montana voted on medical marijuana, and North Dakota voted on expanding their medical program. Eight out of nine measures were passed by voters in those states, Arizona being the only one to fail.

After hearing that marijuana got more votes than either presidential candidate (in the states where it was on the ballot), I wanted to quickly double check the numbers. Sure enough, in these nine states, Cannabis had over 18 million votes cast, Trump had over 11 million votes cast, and Clinton had over 14 million votes.

If there’s any mandate in this election, it’s to loosen the cannabis laws.

 

State Cannabis Trump Clinton
Arizona 978,433 1,017,166 933,655
Arkansas* 581,259 677,904 378,729
California 5,058,404 3,021,095 5,589,936
Florida* 6,496,157 4,605,515 4,485,745
Maine 756,576 334,838 354,873
Massachusetts 3,491,890 1,083,069 1,964,768
Montana* 284,531 274,120 174,521
Nevada 602,400 511,319 537,753
North Dakota* 215,239 216,133 93,526
TOTALS 18,464,889 11,741,159 14,513,506

* Medical Marijuana

http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/ballot-measures