"Florida Cannabis Act" Would Legalize Marijuana

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Florida voters could decide if recreational pot is legalized like alcohol, if Regulate Florida gets its initiative on the 2016 ballot.

Michael Minardi is on a mission to make recreational marijuana legal in Florida next year. 

Asked how he would do that, considering that a ballot measure to legalize just medical marijuana didn’t pass in 2014, he says, “We’re going to use science, and we’re going to use stats.” 

Minardi is a West Palm Beach attorney who in March won a landmark case that successfully used medical necessity as a defense for pot charges against his client. He has teamed with fellow attorney Bill Wohlsifer and marijuana activist Karen Goldstein to form the corporation Sensible Florida and an associated group, Regulate Florida. Together, they have developed a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would legalize and regulate recreational marijuana for adults. 

The “Florida Cannabis Act” proposes legalizing pot and regulating...

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