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Fact-Checking Popularity of Amendment Two

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In the midterm elections earlier this month in Florida medical marijuana - Issue Two - did not pass. The constitutional amendment to allow for the distribution of medical marijuana needed 60 per cent of the vote to pass. It received 57.6%.

Ben Pollara, the campaign manager for the group behind the amendment, United for Care, tweeted two days after the election that the drug proved more popular than Florida’s governors. Did it?

PolitiFact Florida checked that out and WUSF's Craig Kopp talks with PolitiFact's Josh Gillin about what they found out.