Ron DeSantis re-ups warnings about legal weed in schools, restaurants
Gov. Ron DeSantis is continuing to make the case that legalized recreational marijuana would do what Florida’s medical market has not, and create a pungent wave of olfactory assaults in all public spaces.
“If you read that actual text of the Constitution that will go in it says there can be no penalty, criminal, civil or otherwise for smoking or possessing up to three ounces of pot, which is about 40 to 50 joints. Some law enforcement say more,” DeSantis said of the Adult Personal Use of Marijuana citizen initiative on November’s ballot.
Though the Legislature would be permitted to enact laws consistent with the amendment, including permitting recreational-use dispensaries to compete with th...