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2024 Florida Amendment 3. November 5, 2024. Adult Personal Use of Marijuana. Florida Amendment 3, [1] is a proposed constitutional amendment to the Florida Constitution subject to a direct voter referendum on November 5, 2024 that would partially legalize cannabis for possession, purchase, or recreational use in Florida for adults 21 years or ...
The Florida Supreme Court on Monday approved a recreational marijuana constitutional amendment for the November 2024 statewide ballot, raising the stakes of an already-pivotal presidential election.
The proposal, known as Amendment 3, will legalize the "non-medical personal use of marijuana products and marijuana accessories by an adult" 21 or older if approved by 60% or more of statewide ...
Marijuana possession, sales, transportation and use would still be against federal law, however. To pass, the recreational marijuana amendment would have to receive a supermajority or 60% of the vote.
In April 2021, the Florida Supreme Court ruled 5–2 that an initiative to legalize recreational cannabis was "affirmatively misleading" and therefore would not appear on the 2022 ballot. [24] Prior to the ruling, the group Make it Legal Florida had collected 556,049 valid signatures of 891,589 required to qualify for the ballot. [25]
2021: recreational marijuana signed into law by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, effective June 29, 2021. [138] 2022: commercial sales began April 1, 2022. [139] [140] New York: Legal to possess up to 3 oz (85 g) of cannabis or 24 g of concentrates at home and 3 oz (85 g) in public or gifting without remuneration. [141]
In 2022, marijuana arrests made up 33.69% of the arrests made in the state of Florida. The continued prohibition of marijuana places an undue burden on our criminal justice system, resulting in ...
In the United States, the non-medical use of cannabis is legalized in 24 states (plus Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia) and decriminalized in 7 states, as of November 2023. [1] Decriminalization refers to a policy of reduced penalties for cannabis offenses, typically involving a civil ...