Florida's 2024 Cannabis Ballot Measure's Secret is Simplicity
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<![CDATA[Advocates behind Florida's 2024 adult-use cannabis ballot initiative are hoping to avoid the same fate as a pair of 2022 measures: rejection from the state's Supreme Court. In both cases, the state's justices ruled in 5-2 decisions that the attempts to legalize adult-use cannabis were misleading to voters and were not sufficient to appear on this November's ballot. On the heels of those judicial hiccups, Tallahassee-based multistate operator Trulieve and country music duo The Bellamy Brothers have teamed up to back the 2024 "Adult Personal Use of Marijuana" petition via the Smart & Safe Florida political committee. David Bellamy chairs the committee, and Trulieve is driving it financially through $10 million in contributions so far. RELATED: Trulieve Deposits Another $5 Million Into Florida 2024 InitiativeBut what's stopping the Florida Supreme Court from shutting down the pipeline to the ballot yet again? The secret is in simplicity, Jonathan Robbins, chair of Akerman LLP's national cannabis practice, told Cannabis Business Times. "I think they kept it very simple for that reason," said Robbins, whose Florida-based firm represents Trulieve and many other of the state's 22 Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers (MMTCs), as well as other companies hoping to gain access to the state's medical program. MMTC is the overarching term for a vertically integrated business in Florida. There's nothing in the 2024 adult-use ballot initiative about undoing the state's mandate that licensees must be vertically integrated, from seed to sale, Robbins said. There's nothing about licensing caps or a licensing structure. There's nothing about wholesaling between MMTCs. And there's nothing about social equity programs or social justice initiatives, he said. "I think this thing will probably have a very good shot at making the ballot for 2024 because the language is—and I don't think it's a mistake—so simple, so straightforward that I think…
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