Former President Donald Trump‘s Saturday announcement that he’s throwing his assist behind Florida’s Modification 3, the proposed constitutional modification that seeks to legalize leisure marijuana, elicited a direct response from the hashish trade.
Kim Rivers, CEO of Florida’s largest medical marijuana firm Trulieve TCNNF, which has been a large monetary backer of Modification 3, thanked the previous president Trump.
Her feedback on X had been adopted by former Republican Occasion of Florida Chair Joe Gruters who got here out in favor of hashish legalization over the summer season.
Boris Jordan, founder, chairman & CEO of Curaleaf CURLF identified what many have seemingly been considering over the course of the previous a number of months concerning the U.S. political panorama as we head into the November 2024 elections.
“This yr’s election continues to be historic, and in the present day we’ve two candidates who’ve publicly adopted pro-cannabis stances. It’s a milestone that each candidates are assembly U.S. voters the place they’re at, as this can be a bipartisan difficulty with the overwhelming majority of Individuals now in assist of legalization in some kind,” stated Jordan in a publish on X.
Trump Is Becoming a member of ‘Hundreds of thousands Of Individuals’
“We welcome former President Trump’s feedback on Modification 3 in Florida, which might legalize grownup use hashish within the state. He joins thousands and thousands of Individuals who’ve reassessed their views on hashish in recent times,” stated David Culver, SVP of Public Affairs for the US Hashish Council in an electronic mail to Benzinga.
“Modification 3 enjoys sturdy bipartisan assist from Florida voters, and President Trump’s assist may show pivotal for assembly the 60% threshold required to turn into legislation. We sit up for listening to extra from him about how he would strategy hashish reform if elected this November.”
Governor Ron DeSantis?
To date no phrase from the governor who has been outspoken about his opposition to legalizing marijuana in Florida.
What Trump Mentioned
“In Florida, like so many different States which have already given their approval, private quantities of marijuana will probably be legalized for adults with Modification 3… on the identical time, somebody shouldn’t be a prison in Florida, when that is authorized in so many different states. We don’t have to damage lives & waste Taxpayer {Dollars} arresting adults with private quantities of it on them, and nobody ought to grieve a liked one as a result of they died from fentanyl laced marijuana,” Trump wrote on his Fact Social platform on Saturday.
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