Florida marijuana reform advocates have collected enough raw signatures to qualify a legalization initiative for the state’s 2024 ballot, the campaign’s top financial supporter announced on Wednesday.
The cannabis company Trulieve, which is financially backing the Smart & Safe Florida campaign, announced that advocates have “gathered sufficient raw signatures for inclusion on the November 2024 ballot.”
$TRUL $TCNNF @SmartandSafeFl pic.twitter.com/OFwfyiXZpT
— Trulieve_IR (@Trulieve_IR) May 10, 2023
The Florida Division of Elections updates the ballot signature counts at the end of each month, so the current total isn’t reflected yet. But the last update showed that the campaign was about 94 percent of the way though, so it makes sense that advocates would’ve closed that gap at this point.
To make the ballot, activists will need to turn in 891,523 valid signature. So far, the state had verified 786,688 as of the end of April.
At the end of January, the measure cleared an initial major hurdle, getting enough signatures to initiate a state Supreme Court review of the measure’s language. That process, which is still pending, begins with a referral of the language from the state attorney general.
By the end of February the campaign had crossed the symbolic threshold of
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