TALLAHASSEE — By overwhelming margins, Florida voters want to decide important issues like whether marijuana should be legalized or abortion rights protected and don’t want elected officials making the call, according to a new survey by a prominent Republican pollster who worked for President Donald Trump.

The results are a repudiation of the DeSantis administration’s current and past efforts to block a constitutional amendment to legalize marijuana, the pollster said. Those efforts included using state tax dollars and money from a Medicaid settlement to defeat such a measure in 2024 and this year employing administrative maneuvers to keep the issue off the ballot next November.

“Voters want their voice to be heard. They do not want elected officials to impede their right to participat

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