DeSantis Team Launches Push Against Legal Weed, Claims It Will Turn Florida Into “California Of The East”

July 19, 2024 Politics, Republicans

Florida Politics reports:

The anti-recreational pot effort now has a name: Vote No on 3. The new political committee launched this week “with the full support of the Governor,” promising “a vigorous and full-throated campaign” against the ballot measure to legalize marijuana for adults 21 years old and older.

Consensus Communications, which has prevailed in 19 ballot amendment campaigns, is running the Vote No on 3 campaign. Tre’ Evers has been tapped to serve as General Consultant and Ryan Tyson has been hired as a pollster and Senior Adviser.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Chief of Staff, James Uthmeier, will serve on the committee’s board in his personal capacity. The committee outlined its arguments against the amendment, which it claims will “make Florida the California of the east.”

Yesterday DeSantis made another batshit claim:



“It gives you a limitless constitutional right to possess and smoke. I think it’s up to like, what, 40 joints, is that the three ounces would be 40? More than that, 80 joints. Something like that,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said.

The Florida Supreme Court gave its approval in April to the Adult Personal Use of Marijuana citizen initiative to appear on the ballot.

The language could allow people to possess three ounces of flower or five grams of concentrate. That translates to roughly 27 joints per ounce by the Governor’s math.

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