More than half of Florida voters approved of Amendment 3, but it did not reach the required 60 percent threshold to pass.

A ballot measure to legalize the recreational sale and use of marijuana in Florida failed to pass late Tuesday, sending shares of pot companies into freefall and dealing a blow to cannabis firms that had invested millions in the legalization campaign.

Following the most expensive ballot measure battle in the nation, Decision Desk HQ has called the race with Amendment 3 several percentage points short of the approval threshold with the vast majority of votes counted. Gov. Ron DeSantis also declared the amendment dead.