A marijuana industry-backed campaign to put a legalization initiative before voters on the 2024 ballot has met a symbolic milestone, netting more than 420,000 valid signatures to date.
420, of course, is a special number for cannabis reform advocates, with April 20 being the unofficial holiday to celebrate the plant.
The Florida Division of Elections updates petition counts on the measure at the end of each month, and at the close of February the campaign had netted 420,072 valid signatures, a development first noted by News Service Florida.
At the end of January, the measure cleared a major hurdle, getting enough signatures to initiate a state Supreme Court review of the measure’s language. That analysis is still pending.
The Florida Supreme Court will be looking to make sure that the text of the proposal doesn’t violate the state Constitution’s single subject rule and isn’t affirmatively misleading to voters. If the court determines that the initiative meets those standards, the campaign will need to collect a total of at least 891,589 signatures to make the ballot next year.
Past attempts to place adult-use legalization on the Florida ballot have been challenged and rejected by the court.
Smart & Safe Florida, which
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