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ACLU joins court fight over Florida recreational marijuana legalization

Florida voters won’t see recreational marijuana legalization on their ballots until November 2024 at the earliest, but the battle over whether voters even have the choice is heating up.

This week, according to Tampa TV station WFLA, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief at the Florida Supreme Court in support of the measure.

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Florida’s high court is where state Attorney General Ashley Moody is attempting to have the adult-use measure invalidated.

At Moody’s request, the state Supreme Court this week granted her office extra time to file a brief arguing why the measure should be declared unconstitutional, as Marijuana Moment first reported.

Arguments are now due Aug. 2.

Moody has argued that the measure is written so ambiguously that voters won’t know what they’re supporting.

But the ACLU pointed out that, over the past five years, the Florida Supreme Court struck from the

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