Regulate Florida’s petition creates a rock solid plan that forces the legislature to act, does not violate the strict rules applicable to constitutional amendment language, creates minimum guarantees to access and possession, establishes 4 types of commercial licensing, and permits indoor home growing of six plants per adult household member, as of right. The legislature can increase these mandates, but not go below them. 

We modeled the Regulate Florida petition after Colorado’s Amendment 64. The success of Colorado’s Amendment 64 resulted in unprecedented reductions in crime, reductions in arrests, reduction in marijuana use by minors, created over 1,000 jobs, and generated $40 million in recreational marijuana taxes in 2014. We can triple those results in Florida because of our demographics.

I caution all good people who consider donating their time or money to the Right of Adults to Cannabis’ ballot initiative. While that petition generates a feel-good moment, its stands no chance of surviving Florida Supreme Court scrutiny. At the end of the day the petition sponsored by Floridians For Freedom will not be on the ballot because it is a fatally flawed document.