On November 5th, Florida residents will have a unique opportunity to make recreational marijuana legal in the state.
Florida residents will decide on a pivotal Amendment 3, which seeks to legalize weed use outside of medical reasons. This amendment could mark a significant shift in Florida’s cannabis laws. This bill proposes to legalize recreational marijuana for adults aged 21 and over. Under this amendment, Floridians would be allowed to possess up to three ounces of marijuana and five additional grams of concentrate. The measure also envisions expanding the issuance of licenses and enhancing the regulation of cannabis use. It will be up to the Legislature to set detailed regulatory standards and determine the specifics of cannabis use locations and conditions.
“Allows adults 21 years or older to possess, purchase, or use marijuana products and marijuana accessories for non-medical personal consumption by smoking, ingestion, or otherwise; allows Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers, and other state-licensed entities, to acquire, cultivate, process, manufacture, sell, and distribute such products and accessories. Applies to Florida law; does not change or immunize violations of federal law. Establishes possession limits for personal use. Allows consistent legislation. Defines terms. Provides effective date,” the ballot summary will read.
Recreational weed use seems to be the next plausible step in the state. Since 2016, medical marijuana has been legal in Florida for those with specific conditions who hold a medical marijuana ID card. However, recreational use remains illegal. Local jurisdictions have made strides towards decriminalization, with some areas enacting laws that reduce penalties for minor cannabis possession offenses. For instance, the possession of 20 grams or less is considered a misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in prison and a $5,000 fine. More significant quantities are classified as felonies, and Miami Beach has imposed strict penalties for public marijuana use.
Though Amendment 3’s presence on the ballot is a step in the right direction, it still faces an uphill battle in the red state. To be enacted, it requires a minimum of 60 percent voter approval. Still, a recent survey by the University of North Florida’s Public Opinion Research Lab indicates that 64% of likely voters support the legalization of recreational marijuana.
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Prohibition and Reefer Madness are only pushed and believed by a very small, lunatic-fringe minority of irrational Holier Than Thou types that are on a never ending little personal moral-crusade and witch-hunt against relatively benign cannabis and it’s consumers. The rest of us sane, rational, normal Americans just laugh our butts off at and mock utterly desperate lying prohibitionists and their rediculious Reefer-Madness-Rhetoric as the comedy show they truly are!
Legalize federally now. What’s legal to possess and consume in over half of the populated areas of The United States should not make you a criminal in states still being governed by woefully ignorant prohibitionist politicians.
Cannabis consumers in all states deserve and demand equal rights and protections under our laws that are currently afforded to the drinkers of far more dangerous and deadly, yet perfectly legal, widely accepted, endlessly advertised and even glorified as an All-American pastime, alcohol.
Plain and simple!
Legalize Nationwide Federally Now!
The “War on Cannabis” has been a complete and utter failure. It is the largest component of the broader yet equally unsuccessful “War on Drugs” that has cost our country over a trillion dollars.
Instead of The United States wasting Billions upon Billions more of our yearly tax dollars fighting a never ending “War on Cannabis”, lets generate Billions of dollars, and improve the deficit instead. Especially now, due to Covid-19. It’s a no brainer.
The Prohibition of Cannabis has also ruined the lives of many of our loved ones. In numbers greater than any other nation, our loved ones are being sent to jail and are being given permanent criminal records. Especially, if they happen to be of the “wrong” skin color or they happen to be from the “wrong” neighborhood. Which ruin their chances of employment for the rest of their lives, and for what reason?
Cannabis is much safer to consume than alcohol. Yet do we lock people up for choosing to drink?
Let’s end this hypocrisy now!
The government should never attempt to legislate morality by creating victim-less cannabis “crimes” because it simply does not work and costs the taxpayers a fortune.
Cannabis Legalization Nationwide is an inevitable reality that’s approaching much sooner than prohibitionists think and there is nothing they can do to stop it!
Legalize Nationwide Federally Now! Support Each and Every Cannabis Legalization Initiative!
“Cannabis is 114 times safer than drinking alcohol”
“Cannabis may be even safer than previously thought, researchers say”
“Cannabis may be even safer than previously thought, researchers say New study: We should stop fighting Cannabis legalization and focus on alcohol and tobacco instead By Christopher Ingraham February 23
Compared with other recreational drugs — including alcohol — Cannabis may be even safer than previously thought. And researchers may be systematically underestimating risks associated with alcohol use.
Those are the top-line findings of recent research published in the journal Scientific Reports, a subsidiary of Nature. Researchers sought to quantify the risk of death associated with the use of a variety of commonly used substances. They found that at the level of individual use, alcohol was the deadliest substance, followed by heroin and cocaine.”
-Washington Post
“The report discovered that Cannabis is 114 times less deadly than alcohol. Researchers were able to determine this by comparing the lethal doses with the amount of typical use. Through this approach, Cannabis had the lowest mortality risk to users out of all the drugs they studied. In fact—because the numbers were crossed with typical daily use—Cannabis is the only drug that tested as “low risk.”
-Complex