Florida voters will have the opportunity to legalize medical marijuana on Nov. 4, and a panel of experts presenting at UF hopes to educate the public about the issue.
“Legalize Marijuana? A Conversation with the Experts” will take place at 10 a.m. Friday at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
The Florida Law Review organized the event, and it’s being sponsored by the Allen L. Poucher Legal Education Series.
“We feel that we don’t get much factual discussion about the issue,” said Dustin Mauser, a third-year UF law student who helped planned the event. “We hope to expect people who want to hear the facts of marijuana.”
State voters have wavered on the issue this year. According to a Bob Graham Center for Public Service poll conducted in September in collaboration with a handful of other media outlets, 57 percent of respondents said they would vote yes on Amendment 2.
About two weeks before decision day, support seems to have dwindled, said Shelby Taylor, Bob Graham Center spokeswoman.
“The more information that’s out there, the more informed they can be,” Taylor said. “It could certainly change the mind of individuals. I don’t know that it’ll change the outcome.”
