Ron Desantis’s governorship is doing all it can to stop the ballot initiative to legalize marijuana from going forward.
Last week we had reported that the group leading the charge for the ballot initiative, Smart & Safe Florida, had successfully submitted their amendment after receiving a bunch of push back and reluctance from Desantis.
Now, it looks like they’ve found a new way to block to measure from going forward. The administration in charge in Florida has moved to block 200,000 signatures from the petition to get the measure on the ballot, and a Florida judge has upheld the move.
Apparently the invalidation comes from the attempt to halt any signatures made on a petition where the full text of the initiative wasn’t shown. Instead, Smart & Safe Florida had a link to the full initiative on the back of the form. The judge agrees that this change wasn’t approved.
200,000 signatures is nothing to sneeze at, being about a third of the signatures they had collected. The deadline for signatures is February 1st, 2026, and it’s unclear if they’ll be able to make up for the lost signatures in time.
They are also appealing the decision, so we’ll see where this all leads. But the one thing clear in this mess is that Smart & Safe Florida is not backing down without a fight.
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