2024 Florida marijuana legalization initiative

The 2024 Florida marijuana legalization initiative, officially titled "Adult Personal Use of Marijuana" (Florida initiative 22-05), is a voter initiative that will appear on the 2024 ballot, if no successful legal challenge is brought. It would amend the state constitution to legalize cannabis in the state of Florida.[1]

2024 Florida marijuana legalization initiative
2024
Adult Personal Use of Marijuana

History

The initiative was registered with authorities around August 2022 for signature collection and assigned initiative number 22-05. To qualify for the ballot, 891,589 valid signatures were required. By December 1, 2022, it had gotten 53,982 signatures.[2] With 294,037 validated signatures by early 2023, an automatic state supreme court legal review was triggered.[3][4] 635,961 signatures were validated by the Florida Secretary of State as of April 4,[5] and there were 841,130 validated signatures by May 1.[6] Around June 1, the Florida Division of Elections validated 967,528 signatures – enough for the measure to qualify for the 2024 ballot.[7][8]

See also

Sources
  1. "Adult Personal Use of Marijuana - Constitutional Amendment Full Text" (PDF). Florida Division of Elections. Retrieved 2023-07-18.
  2. James Call (December 1, 2022). "Trulieve spending big on Florida recreational ballot measure". Tallahassee Democrat. Archived from the original on March 14, 2023. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
  3. Victoria Lewis (August 9, 2022). "Florida recreational marijuana initiative hopes to land on 2024 ballot". WPTV. Archived from the original on May 4, 2023. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
  4. Dara Kam (February 3, 2023). "A Florida recreational marijuana proposal clears its initial hurdle". WUSF (FM). Archived from the original on 2023-05-04. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
  5. "Florida recreational marijuana proposal tops 635,000 signatures". News Service of Florida. April 5, 2023. Archived from the original on May 4, 2023. Retrieved May 1, 2023 – via WINK-TV.
  6. Jackie Mitchell (May 2, 2023). "Florida marijuana legalization initiative has 94% of signatures needed to appear on 2024 ballot". Ballotpedia.
  7. "Florida Cannabis Activists Gather Enough Signatures To Put Legalization On 2024 Ballot". Benzinga. June 1, 2023.
  8. Bruce Ritchie (June 1, 2023). "Florida recreational marijuana effort clears crucial hurdle". Politico – via MSN.
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