Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) seemed to tacitly acknowledge that part of the reason he recently vetoed a bill to ban intoxicating hemp products was because he hopes the industry will aid in his campaign opposing a marijuana legalization ballot initiative.
Amid reports that the governor rejected the hemp legislation to earn the industry’s favor, DeSantis was asked on Wednesday to weigh in on his rationale.
While he started by saying the legislation “had some problems” that would have disrupted an industry that was intentionally made legal in the state, he also notably conceded that he believes “the marijuana industry wanted this hemp bill” to pass, and he took that into account when making his executive decision.
DeSantis, who recently launched a political action committee called the “Florida Freedom Fund” to oppose the marijuana ballot initiative, said it wasn’t the “primary thing” that led him to veto the legislation, but the idea that the “marijuana industry [was] trying to support this” factored into his thinking.
“Some of these people that are funding the marijuana, they came in when we did the medical marijuana, which I implemented because the voters passed it, and they said, ‘We don’t believe in recreation. We just
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