If former President Donald Trump endorses a Florida marijuana legalization ballot initiative ahead of the election, it would “guarantee victory,” his longtime ally and GOP political operative Roger Stone says.

While Trump has yet to say where he stands on the measure, which he’ll have a chance to vote on this November as a Florida resident, he said last week that he’ll be making a statement about Amendment 3 “fairly soon.”

Stone has long advocated for cannabis reform despite his affinity for former President Richard Nixon, whose administration rejected a decriminalization recommendation from a federal commission.

He told Marijuana Moment in a phone interview on Monday that he’s unsure how Trump will ultimately come down on the Florida legalization proposal, though he expects that the former president will at least maintain his broader position that states should be allowed to set their own marijuana policies without federal intervention.

But if Trump ultimately endorses the initiative? It “would guarantee victory,” Stone said. If he takes a neutral stance, Stone added, that “will make this a contest.”

“President Trump’s position in 2016 was that this is a state’s rights issue, and that the people in all cases should decide,” he said. “Whether

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