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Florida voters rejected a ballot measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana for adults at least 21 years old and allowed them to possess up to 3 ounces of marijuana.

It failed to meet the required 60 percent threshold at a time when the US Drug Enforcement Administration is making moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. Florida’s Republican-dominated government has a long history of opposing the legalization of marijuana.

Another measure enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution was too early to be tabled Tuesday night.

Passing the marijuana measure would not have immediately made marijuana legal in Florida. It would have allowed the Florida Legislature to create regulations or decide how to implement the amendment during the legislative session that begins in March.

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Florida Republican officials have been mixed on their support for the ballot measure. Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican legislative leaders opposed the measure, with DeSantis saying it only benefits big marijuana corporations and would leave the air smelling of marijuana.

But former President Donald Trump signaled support in early September for the measure and a potential change in federal marijuana reclassification policy. He said he would vote in favor of the initiative, one of the few positions on which he and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris agreed.

A 2014 medical marijuana ballot initiative failed to receive the 60 percent needed to pass. In 2016, then-Gov. Rick Scott approved a law allowing medical marijuana for terminally ill patients, and that same year Florida voters approved a ballot referendum that expanded access to people with conditions including HIV, PTSD, Parkinson’s disease or Crohn’s disease.

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