If passed, the initiative will legalize the sale of marijuana to anyone over the age of 21 by the state’s current medical cannabis businesses like Trulieve. In 2016, Floridians approved a constitutional amendment to legalize medical cannabis. Trulieve, the largest medical cannabis business in Florida, has committed $20 million to the Smart & Safe Florida political committee proposal after first providing seed money to get the campaign off the ground. The initiative was submitted by Smart & Safe Florida in the summer of 2018, and the campaign has so far submitted 294,037 valid signatures to initiate the review. The court has already ruled against efforts to put adult-use legalization on the ballot in Florida.
A petition supported by the marijuana business that seeks to place a legalization proposal before voters in 2024 has collected enough signatures to trigger a review of the initiative’s language by the state Supreme Court. The initiative was submitted by Smart & Safe Florida in the summer of 2018, and the campaign has so far submitted 294,037 valid signatures to initiate the review.
Which is a necessary step toward ballot placement, as reported initially by News Service Florida. To get a court to evaluate the initiative, they required 222,898 signatures. The Supreme Court of Florida will review the initiative to ensure that it does not mislead...
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