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The campaign behind a Florida marijuana legalization ballot initiative “tricked” President Donald Trump into endorsing the reform, a state GOP senator says.
Sen. Jon Martin (R) claimed in an interview with Florida’s Voice that the Smart & Safe Florida campaign deliberately misled the public about the cannabis initiative, which received a majority of the vote last November but not enough to be enacted.
Specifically, he pointed to a “massive loophole” in the proposal that he said would have stripped the legislature of the ability to impose restrictions on public consumption.
“Medical marijuana could be banned as far as smoking in public, but not recreational marijuana,” Martin said. “It was a huge glitch.”
The senator said “the lawyers that put that on the ballot basically cost their client $100 million because that’s how much Smart & Safe Florida spent to advocate—actually more than that—for Amendment 3.” He was referencing the multi-state cannabis operator Trulieve that provided the lion’s share of donations to the legalization push.
He also pointed to the fact that a revised version of the marijuana initiative that was filed this month, with hopes of making the 2026 ballot, now specifically states that the “smoking and vaping of marijuana
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