OAN Staff Abril Elfi
6:40 PM – Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Incoming reports have projected that an effort to legalize the use of recreational marijuana will fail at the ballot box in the Sunshine State.
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Although medicinal cannabis use is legal in Florida, recreational use has failed to receive the 60% voter support needed to pass a state constitutional amendment, despite endorsements from the Florida Democratic Party to former President Donald Trump.
Currently, state law permits the use of marijuana for medical purposes if a physician determines that it is necessary in treating a patient’s pain, epilepsy, insomnia, cancer, or glaucoma. Voters in Florida successfully passed a statewide vote in 2016 to expand eligibility for medical use.
Nevertheless, Florida will continue to prohibit the drug’s recreational use for the foreseeable future.
Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), a vocal opponent of the amendment, is reportedly pleased that it was repealed. The Republican governor cautioned voters against passing the measure in interviews with the media and at a number of press conferences.
DeSantis also said in May that the legalization of Amendment 3 would come with a high potential for public nuisance.
“It would be everywhere. The state would smell like it. We don’t need that in Florida,” DeSantis said regarding cannabis legalization.
Trump became a public supporter of the measure despite DeSantis’ strong opposition. Many suffering Americans prefer to not become addicted to painkillers or other pharmaceutical pills that are not only highly addictive but can ruin lives and cause an overdose if taken negligently, so they choose to partake in marijuana instead.
“As a Floridian, I will be voting YES on Amendment 3 this November,” the former president wrote in a post on his social media site Truth Social.
“Unlike Kamala Harris, who also sentenced thousands of Black men for non-violent marijuana use, President Trump agrees that Americans should not be permanently imprisoned for using a substance that is now legal in multiple states,” stated Janiyah Thomas, a Trump campaign media director.
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