Florida adult-use marijuana legalization campaign clears early hurdle

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February 3, 2023

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The campaign to legalize adult-use marijuana in Florida has collected enough signatures to trigger a state Supreme Court review of the initiative.

Smart & Safe Florida has collected more than 294,000 valid signatures from Florida voters, according to Miramar TV station WTVJ.

That’s enough to compel a legal review from the court, which in 2021 rejected two adult-use legalization proposals.

Smart & Safe Florida will need to collect 891,589-plus signatures to put a constitutional amendment before voters in November 2024.

Florida ballot initiatives need 60% support to become law.

As drafted, the measure would open up the state’s existing MMJ dispensaries to any adult 21 and over. Home cultivation would continue to be illegal.

Multistate operator Trulieve Cannabis, the biggest MMJ company in Florida, its home state, has contributed at least $20 million to the Smart & Safe campaign.

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President Trump will decide marijuana rescheduling, federal reform

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January 22, 2025

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Did Donald Trump mean it when he said he wanted marijuana reform – and will the former and current president follow through?

With the marijuana rescheduling process paused indefinitely – its future is at the mercy of Trump’s future choice to lead the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration – and Republicans in Congress mostly bent to the once and current president’s will, nothing less than the future of the $32 billion marijuana industry depends on the answer.

Trump made history in September when he became the first major-party presidential nominee to endorse a state adult-use legalization campaign.

Though Trump’s backing of Florida’s Amendment 3 – some critics say his endorsement was mostly spurred by his acrimonious relationship with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – didn’t

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Farming techniques could boost CBD, hemp study infers

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January 17, 2025

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A new study on hemp microorganisms could ultimately help researchers, scientists and growers boost production of CBD and other valuable compounds such as terpenes.

The University of Houston study – titled “Microbiome diversity and variations in industrial hemp genotypes” and published in Nature magazine – examined communities of microbiomes living in and around the roots and leaves of four types of hemp plants.

University of Houston researchers compared how those microorganisms differ between hemp grown for fiber and hemp grown for CBD production.

“Understanding these microorganisms can also lead to more sustainable farming methods, using nature to boost plant growth instead of relying heavily on chemicals,” Waqar Ahmad, an author of the study and doctoral student of lead researcher Abdul Latif Khan,

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Banking, veterans and research top priorities for Congress, new Cannabis Caucus chair says

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January 16, 2025

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If U.S. Rep. Dina Titus has her way, the 119th Congress will finally pass cannabis banking reform as well as bills easing military veterans’ access to medical marijuana and researchers’ abilities to study the drug.

If all that sounds familiar – or like a crass joke, in the weeks before Groundhog Day – it should.

Those popular and long-sought-after wins are also what the Nevada Democrat and newly minted co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus’ immediate predecessors chased after, Titus acknowledged during an interview with MJBizDaily.

Titus, whose new caucus co-chair is fellow Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, spoke with MJBizDaily only days after the newly seated Congress voted to certify the November presidential election that will allow Donald Trump return to

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