While the Florida state legislature keeps going in circles around the problem of marijuana reform, a legion of marijuana activist have come forward with a ballot initiative aimed at legalizing recreational cannabis in 2016. Regulate Florida, an organization seeking to repeal prohibition in Florida received word this past week from state election officials that their perfect plan to put the topic of legal marijuana on the ballot in the next presidential election had been approved.
This is major news for Florida voters who were already prepping to head, full throttle, into the polls next year to place a majority vote towards United for Care’s proposal to create a statewide medical marijuana program. Eventually, as long as the forces behind Regulate Florida manage to collect the necessary 683,149 verified signatures, the voting demographic potentially be in a position to choose whether they would rather legalize marijuana only for medical purposes or go for it all, unleashing the herb altogether, by backing a regulatory model that would allow marijuana to be sold in a way similar to alcohol.
Tallahassee attorney Bill Wohlsifer and longtime marijuana advocate Michael Minardi wrote a proposal, aptly deemed the “Florida Cannabis Act,” in war dance against the state legislature, which has proved efficiently inadequate at launching even the simplest CDB only market, not to mention their complete disregard in 2015 for even thinking about the reform of marijuana laws.
Yet, the latest initiative sets fire to the attitude in the state capital by providing voters the power to decide whether people 21 and over should be allowed to possess up to an ounce of weed and grow as many as six plants for personal consumption. Additionally, the initiative seeks to create a taxed and controlled market that would provide retail marijuana stores to open up all across the state, allowing Floridians something that resembles what is currently underway in Colorado, yet with palm trees and sandy coastlines.
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