Deerfield-News.com-Deerfield Beach, Fl-Governor Ron Desantis has come out strongly and wrongly against” Amendment 3″ which would allow for recreational marijuana to be sold in Florida to adults.
FIRST LET ME START BY SAYING THE BIGGEST ERROR OF THE GOVERNOR IS TALKING NONSENSE ABOUT WHERE CONSUMPTION COULD TAKE PLACE. THE SAME AS MEDICAL MARIJUANA IT COULD ONLY BE CONSUMED IN PRIVATE OUT OF PUBLIC VIEW BY LAW. THERE WILL NOT BE THE STENCH OF MARIJUANA PERMEATING THE PUBLIC VENUE AT STORES, RESTAURANTS, AND STADIUMS AS HE ALLEGES.
The Governor has missed the boat he is running the most successful Medical marijuana program in the country and should get credit for it. Florida only has 22 licensed medical Marijuana Treatment centers as licenses. These 22 companies which will be increased to 44 have basically created an oligopoly, but a good one. The State of Florida only having limited licenses and a vertically integrated program which means each licensee must grow market distribute and sell their product in their own stores. The only exception I am aware of where operators can even trade tightly controlled and monitored products is if there is a state-certified “Failed Grow” which would enable the licensee with the failed grow to get product from one of the other 21 Licensees.
In a “Free Florida”- “We The People” get to vote and decide if the consumption by adults of cannabis will be allowed not the Governor. The Amendment has passed all court scrutiny-including the Supreme Court of Florida and will be on the ballot, Florida voters get to decide. Allowing the voters to choose would be a Free Florida, Governor get your facts right and let the adults in the room vote for what is now on the ballot, get your thumb off the scale, so to speak.
Again the Governor should be touting the success of Florida’s Medical Marijuana program which is second to none in the U.S. because of the way it was implemented. The Governor should be smart enough to realize those who want to use marijuana have been and would continue to do so through the “black market”. The reason for taking marijuana sales out of the black market and putting it under state-controlled licensees is logical practical and safer than making folks buy on the black market.
