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Poll for Florida voters: Did you vote for Amendment 3?

Did you vote to make marijuana legal in Florida?

  • Yes

    Votes: 23 63.9%
  • No

    Votes: 5 13.9%
  • I left that blank

    Votes: 1 2.8%
  • I didn't vote in this election

    Votes: 7 19.4%

  • Total voters
    36
Yeah, but I voted with the understanding that 'courtesy' isn't extended to everyone.

But police departments across the county [Miami-Dade] continued to make arrests anyway, locking up more than 4,200 people on misdemeanor marijuana charges over the past five years. Nearly 60% of those cases were brought against Black defendants like Johnson, despite Black people making up just 18% of Miami-Dade’s population.
I truly don't care if it passes all that much. My objection is the monopolizing of the plant, which will make for higher prices, and the taxing on it, which will make it even more expensive. And how the state will spend that tax money hasn't been established yet, but you can bet it'll be a boondoggle for someone. Wish they'd specify where the money will go and stick to it, but that isn't how politics work anymore.
 
I truly don't care if it passes all that much. My objection is the monopolizing of the plant, which will make for higher prices, and the taxing on it, which will make it even more expensive. And how the state will spend that tax money hasn't been established yet, but you can bet it'll be a boondoggle for someone. Wish they'd specify where the money will go and stick to it, but that isn't how politics work anymore.

Can't do that with an amendment petition. Would violate the single subject rule. You'd need a completely different one directing how that tax money can be spent.
 
Can't do that with an amendment petition. Would violate the single subject rule. You'd need a completely different one directing how that tax money can be spent.
Well, if it can't be done, then I vote NO for the amendment for that reason alone.

Now, I'm gonna go sit on the lanai and eat a gummie to calm me down before the results start pouring.
Pot Leaf Smoke GIF by SHOKKA
 
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For those who voted "No," why do you think people should be imprisoned for marijuana possession?
I would vote no. And would answer your question with no. I think it being legalized gives too many people the sense of entitlement to use wherever they want including a movie theater.
 
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Good point, though I'm not particularly averse to a contact high every now and then either.
 
I truly don't care if it passes all that much. My objection is the monopolizing of the plant, which will make for higher prices, and the taxing on it, which will make it even more expensive. And how the state will spend that tax money hasn't been established yet, but you can bet it'll be a boondoggle for someone. Wish they'd specify where the money will go and stick to it, but that isn't how politics work anymore.
Then, I assume you will be writing your Representative and Senator asking them to extend the current number of licenses for medicinal marijuana that is currently allowed to be issued?
 
I don’t really care but I hope I don’t start smelling a bunch of the skunky stuff.
 
Buncha growers in Gadsden and Jefferson Counties who are “connected” is what I’ve heard.
1 license for them. A handful of others around the state. Again, the legislature had the chance to do this right. They failed.
 
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I truly don't care if it passes all that much. My objection is the monopolizing of the plant, which will make for higher prices, and the taxing on it, which will make it even more expensive.

Like I said before, I don't like the monopolization either, but they can't get too crazy on price because there is so much illegal product that will still flow if there are huge monopoly profits to cut into.

Do you pay tax on your boiled peanuts when you buy them from the side of the road?

And how the state will spend that tax money hasn't been established yet, but you can bet it'll be a boondoggle for someone. Wish they'd specify where the money will go and stick to it, but that isn't how politics work anymore.

Yes, government spending will be inefficient, that's the nature of the beast. Still rather see taxes collected on it, than spent trying to keep people from having it.
 
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Currently 25 authorized to grow and dispense.


Could be more. I know there’s something like another 20 applications pending.
 
They didn't want to do it at all but were forced to implement something by a prior amendment.
Trust me, I’m very well aware. They passed some BS bill before the amendment passed that only gave one license per region and it had to be a grower who’s been in business for 30 years and could grow over 400K plants. To @goldmom point, a connected family.
 
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Yeah the anti commercials talk about people gonna be smoking in restaurants, theaters and stadiums. Um...no they aren't. Can't smoke cigarettes there, why would you think you'd be able to smoke weed.
Except that is what I experienced two months ago at a movie. I smell it in public more often now than I do cigarette smoke. And it's not legal. Weed doesn't have the same stigma as cigarettes and people seem to feel entitled to smoke it wherever they damn well please. God forbid if it's legal.
 
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The primary reason I think this type of issue is best handled with legislation,.. is that with the constitutional amendment approach it becomes much more difficult to fine tune things if issues arise...

Our legislature has not hesitated to "fine tune" (to their will & wishes) pretty much every Constitutional Amendment passed in Florida over the last 30 years. If you doubt that, go by any typical public school and see how many class sizes meet a very strict reading of the class size amendment vs how many meet the rules the legislature adopted (and has since tinkered with regularly) to implement the Amendment.
 
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Except that is what I experienced two months ago at a movie. I smell it in public more often now than I do cigarettes. And it's not legal. Weed doesn't have the same stigma as cigarettes and people seem to feel entitled to smoke it wherever they damn well please. God forbid if it's legal.

I smelled it out on the street in Vegas (where it's legal). But you can smoke cigarettes in the casinos (but not weed), so....
 
I smelled it out on the street in Vegas (where it's legal). But you can smoke cigarettes in the casinos (but not weed), so....

Of the places I've visited where recreational is legal, Vegas is the only one where I regularly smelled it on the street.
 
Except that is what I experienced two months ago at a movie. I smell it in public more often now than I do cigarette smoke. And it's not legal. Weed doesn't have the same stigma as cigarettes and people seem to feel entitled to smoke it wherever they damn well please. God forbid if it's legal.
Well damn...that shouldn't happen. People should be publicly shamed and tossed from venues.
 
Except that is what I experienced two months ago at a movie. I smell it in public more often now than I do cigarette smoke. And it's not legal. Weed doesn't have the same stigma as cigarettes and people seem to feel entitled to smoke it wherever they damn well please. God forbid if it's legal.
At a movie where?
 
Like I said before, I don't like the monopolization either, but they can't get too crazy on price because there is so much illegal product that will still flow if there are huge monopoly profits to cut into.

Do you pay tax on your boiled peanuts when you buy them from the side of the road?

Kinda sorta. I don't buy them on the road. I buy raw peanuts at the store and boil them myself. Mine are MUCH better than what you can pay for them elsewhere, with the perfect blend of softness and saltiness. And they may very be a gateway to obesity, but so be it.
 
I've gotten a laugh out of the stupid arguments used in the ads opposing Amendment 3.

* You won't be allowed to grow your own!!!
That's been the case for all of the 61 years I've been alive, and yet many people have always grown their own and will continue to do so. If they get caught under current law, they might go to jail. I assume that would be the same penalty if it passes.

* It's a money giveaway & will grant a monopoly to a big Canadian Company!!!
Current law limiting weed to those with a medical card is a money giveaway to the State and to those in the medical field who have taken the minimal effort required to be authorized to write a scrip. To keep your medical card, you have to pony up more $ to the State every year, and to your doctor every seven months! WTF is the logic in that??? At the very least, make the damn doctor's prescription and the state license last for the same damn amount of time. I shouldn't have to put together a damn excel spreadsheet to keep track of what I need to do next time I want some smokes or gummies. Hypothetical, of course...that would be IF I was a stoner.
 
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Of the places I've visited where recreational is legal, Vegas is the only one where I regularly smelled it on the street.

Mrs. Tradition's (no pic) BFF (no pic of her either) lives in Colorado and she says you'll smell it on the streets in downtown Denver or Boulder.
 
Mrs. Tradition's (no pic) BFF (no pic of her either) lives in Colorado and she says you'll smell it on the streets in downtown Denver or Boulder.

I've ben to Colorado three times on ski trips since recreational use was legalized there; my only time in Denver was at the airport & getting in a rental car to drive to the slopes ( Winter Park & Breck). Of course, didn't smell it in the airport or at the rental car desk.
I expected it to be prevalent on the slopes & lifts, but very rarely smelled it.
 
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Can't do that with an amendment petition. Would violate the single subject rule. You'd need a completely different one directing how that tax money can be spent.
I voted against. I still think it’s possibly a gateway drug.
Just sayin.
 
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