Recreational Cannabis Referendum Seeks Revival at Florida Supreme Court – Law.com
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The move comes weeks after the organization missed a deadline to have the roughly 880,000 signatures it needed in support of the referendum certified by the state, and follows the high court’s decision to cancel oral arguments on the substance of the initiative.
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“The Florida Supreme Court appropriately just dismissed the case,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wrote in a statement shared across his social media platforms Wednesday. “Floridians can continue to breathe the free air for another election cycle.”
The ruling is a huge blow to Smart & Safe Florida, which is up against a Feb. 1 deadline to submit just over 880,000 valid signatures in support of its proposed referendum, which would allow adults 21and over to legally possess, purchase and use marijuana for non-medical purposes. As of Friday’s ruling, the campaign was more than 165,000 signatures short.
“Florida’s Constitution is not for sale, and we will not allow a mega marijuana corporation to hijack our state’s governing document,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in a Tuesday press releasing targeting Smart & Safe Florida, the group fighting to get a referendum on recreational cannabis on Florida’s 2026 ballot.
“It misleads voters in a way designed to garner greater approval, is flatly invalid under the federal Constitution, and violates the single-subject requirement….This initiative is no more than a sprawling statute in constitutional clothing, a textbook ‘abuse of the amendment process,’” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s argued in a 75-page brief in opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment that would legalize recreational cannabis.
“[Curaleaf] is involved in an illicit scheme whereby it has surreptitiously integrated code into its website that discloses protected health information to third-party marketers and data brokers—which, in turn, use that protected information to assist Defendant with marketing campaigns to its customers,” the complaint, filed Saturday in the Southern District of Florida, reads.
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