Will Missouri Vote To Legalize? Polls Paint a Messy Picture

In just over a month, Missouri voters will head to polls to determine whether the state will be the latest to legalize adult recreational cannabis use.

The results are clearly hanging in the air.

of missouri independence Highlights of the week Two recent polls “found voters very divided on the question of whether Missouri should legalize recreational marijuana use.”

Emerson College Poll Multiple voters in Missouri (48%) indicated they supported Amendment 3. Amendment 3 would legalize adult-use cannabis in Showmey and establish a regulated recreational cannabis market there.

A poll found 35% of state voters opposed Amendment 3, and another 17% said they weren’t sure.

The survey was arguably more encouraging to proponents of the amendment than another poll by the Remington Research Group. according to missouri independence, According to the survey, “Only 43% of respondents [are] In favor of Amendment 3, 47% disagree and 10% are uncertain. “

Another poll yielded very different polls from these two. SurveyUSA poll last month Missouri found a majority of 62% in favor of Amendment 3, while 22% said they would disagree and 16% said they were undecided.

All three of these polls were conducted in September.

Despite the vague outlook, we are confident that the group behind the amendment, Legal Missouri 2022, will pass next month.

“Support for the 3rd Amendment is strong because legalizing marijuana frees law enforcement to focus on fighting violent and serious crime and brings in tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue for states. It’s growing every day,” said John Payne, Legal Missouri 2022 campaign manager. said to missouri independence.

Just having the Third Amendment put on the ballot was a victory for Regal Missouri.

The group submitted nearly 400,000 signatures to the Missouri secretary of state in May, but by mid-summer there were reports that organizers might still be short.

For such a bill to be eligible for the Missouri ballot, organizers had to collect signatures from at least 8% of registered voters in six of the state’s eight congressional districts.

local tv station reported in July that signatures appeared to be very low in four districts.

“You can’t say without certainty if it will work. It’s never certain that they will fail. This is not dead,” Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said at the time. .

Ashcroft was right to call attention. A month later, he said in August, Ashcroft’s office said the organizers had met the signature requirements and the amendment was eligible for voting.

In a statement at the time, Payne said, “A statewide coalition of activists, business owners, medical marijuana patients, and advocates for criminal justice reform has been working tirelessly to get to this point, and all the credit is due.” “Our campaign volunteers collected over 100,000 signatures in addition to paid signature collection. This has made all the difference, and I look forward to engaging with voters across the state in the coming weeks and months as Missourians are ready to end the pointless and costly ban on marijuana. it’s finished.”

Even if you pass Fix 3 Imposes a 6% state tax on retail sales of marijuana, while allowing “automatic criminal expiry for Missourians who commit nonviolent marijuana-related crimes.” It will also allow “local governments to impose a local consumption tax of up to 3%”.