Florida’s Supreme Court has ruled against the state attorney general and will allow a marijuana legalization initiative to appear before voters on the November ballot.
While Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) asked the court to invalidate the ballot measure, the justices sided with advocates and affirmed its constitutionality on Monday.
The decision comes more than four months after justices heard oral arguments in the case against the Smart and Safe Florida campaign last November.
Moody’s main argument was that the ballot initiative is affirmatively misleading, in part because she says voters would not be able to understand from the summary that marijuana would remain federally illegal even if Florida moved to legalize.
The court disagreed, however. And now voters will get the chance to decide on legalization after a prior marijuana reform ballot measure was invalidated on constitutional grounds by the same court in 2022.
“Our role is narrow—we assess only whether the amendment conforms to the constitutionally mandated single-subject requirement, whether the ballot summary meets the statutory standard for clarity, and whether the amendment is facially invalid under the federal constitution. In light of those limited considerations, we approve the proposed amendment for placement on the ballot,” the court majority
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