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Old 07-09-2019, 09:15 AM
 
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I wish Florida would...

I agree. Cannabis is everywhere here in the Sunshine State already. We could allocate the tax revenue from cannabis sales to improve K-12 education, heal damaged waterways, etc.
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Old 07-09-2019, 12:31 PM
 
Location: Atlanta, GA
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There is an active petition drive in Florida but it's going to be harder to get it qualified for the ballot now that Desantis just signed a new stupid law which makes it harder for citizen initiatives to qualify enough signatures.

The Florida legislature is really working overtime to kill the will of the people in their state. Did the same thing on felon voting rights.
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Old 07-09-2019, 02:49 PM
 
Location: Inland FL
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I agree. Cannabis is everywhere here in the Sunshine State already. We could allocate the tax revenue from cannabis sales to improve K-12 education, heal damaged waterways, etc.
Unfortunately even if a ballot was put on next year, I doubt it’d pass because it’d need 60 percent or more of voters voting in favor of it. Maybe in the middle 2020s.
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Old 07-09-2019, 04:06 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Gilead
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I think we are still a good 10-15 years from legal marijuana catching on nationwide. The religious right controls things right now and they are heavily against it.
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Old 07-10-2019, 12:20 AM
 
Location: Tucson/Nogales
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Unfortunately even if a ballot was put on next year, I doubt it’d pass because it’d need 60 percent or more of voters voting in favor of it. Maybe in the middle 2020s.
Sheldon Adelson, who owns the Venetian casino in Las Vegas, and casino's in Macau, with all his billions has spent million trying to get marijuana ballots defeated. It was suspected that he was behind the defeat of the first Medical Marijuana ballot in Florida, and recently, the recreational marijuana ballot in AZ. But with all his millions to defeat these ballots, he didn't get it defeated in his home state in NV!
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