I was approached by a guy today getting signatures to put Recreational Weed on the ballot again in 2026. I didn't even know they were trying again already. It was at 56% last time and needs 60%. The opponents did a good job last time of fending it off, saying it was too pro corporation, and only big companies would be allowed to supply it. New effort to put recreational cannabis back on Florida ballot in 2026
I don't use it in any form but overall people using pot don't bother me. I grew up in Gainesville and went to high school in the 70's and smoked enough to qualify as a expert. Until they make it legal for everyone to grow at least a couple of plants at their home I will not vote for it.
The last time I smoked a joint I was on my way home in a flowered VW bus after seeing a performance by the original cast of Jesus Christ Superstar in a bus load of hippies. Had to be in the very early 70s. I don't care one way or the other about recreational marijuana.
The sinuses already working on the ability to block future ballot initiatives. Marijuana won't be on the ballot
I remember DeSantis and others talking about the smell. How does that work now with legal marijuana? Or for cigarettes and cigars? And if smell is the issue, what about edibles and vapes?
My concern is the smell for sure. I would be in favor of a longer latent period in between passing the legislation and implementing it to give public and private interests to get their rules and regulations in order so we don't have to put up with dead skunk smell everywhere we go. Just add it to everything that's already out there for tobacco.
The DeSantis ad campaign proved effective.... Nowhere in the language of the full explanation of the Amendment does it expressly forbid homegrown cannabis. Dr. Jessica Spencer of "Vote No On 3" confirmed that in our exclusive WESH 2 News, Commitment 2024 debate. “It doesn't address whether a guy can take his box full of garden tools and seeds to the backyard and start digging a hole and growing cannabis. You agree with that right?” reporter Greg Fox asked. "Correct ... I absolutely… because the word cultivate is not there,” Spencer said. Florida Amendment 3: Can you grow your own marijuana plants?
Been to New York City lately? You're walking in a cloud of weed the entire time. It's not like that in Florida...yet. I happen to like the smell of weed even though I don't smoke it. So it's not a big deal for me. It will be a problem for a lot of folks.
We've got medicinal already, anyone who is a 'smoke in public' person already is doing it for the most part. I don't think the cost barrier of getting a card is holding back a tidal wave of smokers/vapers in Florida. Go to any place with a lot of people where smoking is allowed and you are going to smell weed. If people are against that kind of thing, than they really should back the big "corporate" weed ... it will keep costs high, and there wont be mom and pop weed shops on every corner either.
At least with cigarettes and cigars you can't drive down the interstate with your windows up and can tell when someone passes you that they we smoking. Pot still stinks at 80 mph, it hangs around and doesn't dissipate.
Certainly not uncommon to get a whiff of it these when you’re out and about. Someone smoking or has been smoking.
The weed smell gets in the way of Florida's natural swamp-ass odors. When people bring up NYC, do they remember that before legal weed, it just smelled like urine and outdoor garbage?
HA! not sure where you live in Florida but if it smells like ass, you should move. I suppose pot smell is better that a paper mill smell (grew up in an area that every time it was going to rain you could smell it) but at least I can avoid the paper mills.
I cant think of many "lots of people around / good smells" combination, other than maybe some kind of BBQ/food festival. Generally speaking, the places I'm likely to encounter public smokers are places like downtown, which is your typical urban melange of fragrances, which gets dialed up the hotter and wetter it gets. Even in nature you get that dead plant / muck smell at certain times of the year, so if you like the smell of compost ...
Oklahoma passed medicinal marijuana about 10 years ago. Recreational marijuana was on the ballot last year and I thought for sure it would pass but it failed miserably and there was not a big push for it either way. The measure did not win in a single county across the state. It was a shocker.
