{"id":55618,"date":"2024-09-01T16:04:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T06:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=55618"},"modified":"2024-09-01T16:04:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T06:04:18","slug":"trump-signals-support-for-recreational-marijuana-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=55618","title":{"rendered":"Trump signals support for recreational marijuana in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donald Trump on Saturday signaled his backing for a ballot initiative that would legalize recreational marijuana use in Florida, where he resides.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether people like it or not,&#8221; the Republican presidential candidate said on his Truth Social platform, &#8220;this will happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The decriminalization of marijuana is widely supported across the country. Three-quarters of Americans live in states where marijuana is legal for recreational and medical use, or medical use only.<\/p>\n<p>Polls show support is particularly strong among younger people, a demographic that has shifted significantly toward Trump&#8217;s rival Kamala Harris since she became the Democratic candidate for president.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative in Florida, to be on the ballot in November when Americans are voting for their next president, is opposed by Governor Ron DeSantis and some other state Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump on Saturday signaled his backing for a ballot initiative that would legalize recreational marijuana use in Florida, where he resides. &#8220;Whether people like it or not,&#8221; the Republican presidential candidate said on his Truth Social platform, &#8220;this will happen.&#8221; The decriminalization of marijuana is widely supported across the country. Three-quarters of Americans live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2208],"class_list":["post-55618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-trump-signals-support-for-recreational-marijuana-in-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}