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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 100,000 MEDICAL MARIJUANA PETITIONS SENT TO FLORIDA SUPREME COURT 🌿100,000 MEDICAL MARIJUANA PETITIONS SENT TO FLORIDA SUPREME COURT
Last November, 58 percent of Florida voters supported Amendment 2, which would have made medical marijuana legal in Florida. Even though the majority of voters were in favor of the amendment, it wasn't enough to pass. The vote was just two points shy of the 60 percent threshold.
But the loss didn't dissuade United For Care, the group behind the push. In January, the group submitted a new constitutional amendment. They spent the last seven months gathering petition signatures. Today, Ben Pollara, the group's campaign manager, announced that the group is sending 100,000 (almost 30,000 more than necessary) signatures to the Supreme Court to review the language.
It would mark the first step in putting a medical marijuana amendment on the 2016 ballot. Since it is a presidential election, Pollara is confident that the second time's the charm.
"We still have the same really tough bar to climb — the...
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