Florida could finally legalize recreational cannabis in 2022

It doesn’t look like Florida will fall short in the race for the intermediate votes on cannabis reforms. Marijuana advocates in the state are working behind the scenes to promote the decriminalization of adult cannabis in the state.

You successfully petitioned the state a few weeks ago for permission to collect signatures in support of the proposed recovery effort. The submitted part was approved a few days ago and now the real work can begin.

This means that in 2022, Florida could be one of the states to authorize the use, possession, and sale of recreational cannabis in the United States of America.

The use of ballot initiatives

Ballot papers for cannabis reform seem to be the latest trend. States such as Arizona, Montana, South Dakota, and New Jersey have successfully enforced their adult use legislation through the electoral initiative. It’s more popular with states that legalize, or have been a part of, medical cannabis.

In the US general election, registered voters in some states made decisions about the future of their state’s cannabis industry, whether or not to authorize the use of marijuana in the state.

Given the high success rates of electoral initiatives, legislators have moved to reject pending petitions before they can be voted on. In most cases, the language of the draft laws is questioned and used as the main reason for the removal of the measures.

Florida marijuana advocates have tried several times over the past few years to enforce the decision to decriminalize recreational cannabis among registered voters in the state, but to no avail. The most recent failure came earlier this year when the Supreme Court shot down a similar version of the petition just filed.

A regulated cannabis industry in Florida

The measure is being worked on by a group of cannabis advocates called “Regulate Florida”. The team is leading the campaign with a determination to ensure the invoice receives the support it needs to be approved.

The proposed law will decriminalize the use and possession of cannabis for recreational purposes. Florida residents and visitors 21 and older are permitted to use and possess marijuana products.

An estimated provision in the bill states that cannabis users will be allowed to grow a maximum of nine cannabis plants for personal use. A household is entitled to a maximum of 18 stands of plants (this may decrease before the law is passed). However, this bill does not authorize the production of cannabis for retail purposes. Anyone caught doing this without a trade license risks jail time.

Regulate Florida says this law was not made for the retail sale of marijuana.

Challenges to skip over

Nothing is supposed to be straightforward, especially not the processes of cannabis legislation.

In order to sustain the measure that is on the ballot in next year’s election, Regulate Florida must overcome some inevitable obstacles.

First of all, the group has to secure and collect the required signatures in a timely manner, as the time frame provided for this is very small. Without these signatures, the process could fail. The initial signature collection should collect approximately 222,900 signatures from authentic Florida residents who are also duly registered as voters.

Once the first round of collected signatures has been used to conduct a legal and tax impact review, organizers will go back to work collecting over 891,580 signatures to bring the measure to a vote.

Cannabis advocates have announced that they are having a hard time getting over the first tire. Nobody knows why the Attorney General asked for a judicial review of previous legalization initiatives, but some suggest that it should slow the campaign down. Summarizing this judicial review is proving to be very complex as previous initiatives have only existed in the form of failed pleadings used to contradict petitions. One thing is certain, the chances that the measure will be discarded this time due to misleading language are next to zero.

How are the chances

The chances that this bill will garner the support it needs in voting are reasonable.

A recent poll shows that around 59 percent of Florida voters support the decriminalization of recreational cannabis. 59 percent is a little lower, now the group of cannabis advocates will have to strive to convince more voters of the usefulness of the law.

Once the ballot has been successfully placed on the ballot, another task begins to ensure that Florida voters turn up for the midterm elections. It has been taken for granted for some time that the percentage of Americans do not show up for the mid-term elections, the presidential election years see the highest turnout, and this is expected.

Enough registered voters need to be persuaded to come out during the midterm elections to approve and enact the bill.

Micheal Minarda, a campaign manager in the Regulate Florida group, said that the approval of the law should go smoothly when the vote is taken. He supported that statement by saying that quite a few people are ready and willing to accept recreational laws.

Time is running out

The group is calling on Florida residents to spread the word and send in their signed copy of the petition as soon as possible.

Only if everyone involved works together to keep the ball moving can this measure become law next year. As mentioned earlier, the window duration allotted for the first round of signature collection is limited, so now is the best time for you and your to send in your petitions.

Bottom line

So try Regulate Florida that this initiative doesn’t have the same success as Make it Legal Florida. Because of this, she has taken into account all the mistakes the previous groups made and makes sure that the new initiative doesn’t do the same.

The aim now is to overcome the restrictive criteria for collecting signatures and to reach the finish line, in this case the 2022 ballot papers.

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