NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The 2016 Presidential Election could draw the largest voter turnout this country has ever seen. And it's not because the list of Presidential candidates is exciting and controversial. It's because the huge millennial generation will be voting in this election and social issues, like the use of marijuana, could be at the forefront. Candidates' policies on the still illegal drug could play a major part in determining our country's next commander-in-chief.
Expect this millennial youth vote to be especially strong in key swing states like Florida and Nevada, where state marijuana ballot initiatives will be slated for 2016.
At least 20 ballot initiative efforts in eight states are already gathering attention in their push for legal medical and/or recreational marijuana. Arizona, California, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, and Nevada will each have marijuana initiatives on the ballot and account for 171 total electoral votes, most of the way toward the 270 votes needed to win the Presidency.
