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Florida To Decide On Legalizing Recreational Marijuana

In November, Florida voters will decide on Amendment 3, a constitutional amendment that would legalize recreational marijuana for adults. If passed, Amendment 3 would legalize the possession and purchase of up to 3 ounces of marijuana and up to five grams of cannabis concentrates. The measure also allows the state’s current medical marijuana licensees to produce and sell cannabis products to adults aged 21 and up.

Amendment 3 also allows state lawmakers to approve regulations for new businesses to enter the recreational marijuana market, although the initiative does not require the legislature to do so. If approved by voters, the cannabis legalization amendment will take effect six months after election day. Recent polling suggests that the ballot measure has the 60% support needed to pass.

The former president’s potential support for Florida’s Amendment 3 differs significantly from the state’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. At a breakfast meeting during the GOP convention in Milwaukee last month, DeSantis urged the Republican Party of Florida to oppose Amendment 3.

“It gives you a limitless constitutional right to possess and smoke,” DeSantis said about the ballot measure, according to a report from Florida Politics. I think it’s up to like, what, 40 joints, is that the 3 ounces would be 40? More than that, 80 joints. Something like that.”

DeSantis added that he opposes marijuana legalization for several reasons, including the odor of cannabis. During his failed presidential campaign, the governor said that today’s cannabis is “too potent” and repeated the unproven but commonly held assertion that drug dealers “throw fentanyl in.”