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Trulieve CEO tours Florida to ‘set the record straight’ on Amendment 3
The company has invested more than $80 million to get Amendment 3 passed in Florida this fall
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Trulieve sues Florida GOP for defamation over ad featuring ‘Big Weed’ character
The company accused the party of launching an ‘intentionally deceptive campaign’ to mislead voters
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DeSantis-linked anti-pot PAC receives $1 million from group affiliated with co-founders of ‘abusive’ teen drug rehab program
The late GOP megadonors Betty and Mel Sembler also funded efforts to keep medical marjuana illegal in Florida back in 2016
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Committee aiming to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida raises over $100 million
Overall, Smart & Safe Florida had raised $100,751,446 in cash and $607,381 in in-kind contributions since 2022
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Florida Gov. DeSantis defends targeting marijuana petition workers
‘There’s a lot of money that’s at stake here,’ DeSantis said
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Trump confirms he will vote to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida
‘As a Floridian, I will be voting YES on Amendment 3 this November,’ Trump wrote
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Trulieve adds another $7.5 million to effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida
The company’s total contributions now total nearly $83 million
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DeSantis official criticizes Florida’s Amendment 3 for not including ‘home-grow’
Advocates for the measure argue the ‘talking point’ makes little sense in light of FL’s single-subject rules for citizen initiatives
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Florida Sen. Joe Gruters wants to ban smoking in public if recreational marijuana is legalized
Gruters stunned some of his colleagues two weeks ago when he came out in support of the proposed constitutional amendment
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Hedge-fund billionaire gives $12 million to PAC fighting Florida’s recreational marijuana initiative
Griffin called the proposed amendment ‘a terrible plan to create the nation’s most expansive and destructive marijuana laws’
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Former state GOP chair Sen. Joe Gruters backs Florida marijuana legalization
In doing so, he is going up against Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican Party of Florida
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Florida sheriffs and police chiefs oppose recreational marijuana initiative
‘The well-being and health of the citizens of Florida are threatened through the legalization and normalization of recreational marijuana’
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Trulieve adds another $5 million to effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida
Smart & Safe Florida is leading efforts to pass a recreational-marijuana initiative on the November ballot.
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Orlando PR firm that was paid to kill local rent control effort now going after Florida’s pro-pot amendment
Consensus Communications launched their opposition campaign to Florida’s Amendment 3 last Friday.
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PAC aiming to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida raises $313K in a week
In all, the Smart & Safe Florida committee has raised nearly $61.5 million
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U.S. Supreme Court ruling refuels legal fight over medical marijuana, guns
Lawyers are tangling over how the decision should apply to federal prohibitions on medical-marijuana patients buying and possessing guns
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Cathy Jordan, Florida’s ‘patron saint’ of medical cannabis, dies at the age of 74
Jordan was known for her long-term advocacy of the plant, dating to the late 1990s
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‘We cannot have every town smelling like marijuana’: DeSantis says his new PAC will fight recreational pot amendment
The governor has attacked Amendment 3 when talking about plans for the PAC launched in May, calling the initiative ‘bogus’
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Florida hemp industry breathes temporary sigh of relief after DeSantis veto
DeSantis appeared to respond in part to warnings it would deal a blow to tens of thousands of people working in the industry
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John ‘Pot Daddy’ Morgan endorses Florida’s recreational marijuana amendment
‘They don’t call me Pot Daddy for nothing.’