Early marijuana initiative votes have DC favoring legalization and Florida supporting but not passing medical marijuana

Alex does a wonderful job in this post linking to websites for marijuana initiative voting outcomes, and the early results from DC and Florida have already set up an interesting set of political and legal stories to follow in the months and years ahead.  

In DC, it appears that Initiative 71 legalizing marijuana has garnered nearly 70% of votes, and in Florida it appears that Amendment 2 legalizing medical marijuana has garnered 58% of votes.   But, under Florida’s laws, an initiative needs 60% support for passage, so medical marijuana will not be happening in the Sunshine State yet.  And, in the weird federal enclave that is Washington DC, it is quite unclear whether and how the federal government can or will allow the local DC vote to change drug war policies or practices.  

Just some more on-going, ever-evolving marijuana reform stories for this blog to follow.