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TexasTowelie

(112,252 posts) Mon Jun 4, 2018, 05:20 AM Jun 2018

Legalizing pot could be key issue for Florida Democrats in 2018

Three of the state’s top Democratic candidates for governor support legalization of recreational marijuana, and the fourth backs decriminalizing pot for personal use, showing near-consensus on an issue political rainmaker John Morgan said could determine the outcome of the August primary.

Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, Winter Park entrepreneur Chris King and former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine back an across-the-board legalization of pot in Florida, where voters two years ago overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana.

Former Congresswoman Gwen Graham, meanwhile, has endorsed a plan to decriminalize marijuana for personal use, saying she doesn’t believe people should be locked up for possessing small amounts of pot.

Morgan, the Orlando trial lawyer who largely bankrolled the medical marijuana amendment, called recreational weed a make-or-break issue for Democratic candidates seeking to replace outgoing Republican Gov. Rick Scott.

Read more: https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2018/06/01/legalizing-pot-could-be-key-issue-for-florida-democrats-in-2018

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Michigan too DownriverDem Jun 2018 #1

DownriverDem

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1. Michigan too

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Mon Jun 4, 2018, 06:34 AM

Jun 2018

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A petition drive has put the question of legalizing pot and regulate it like alcohol on the ballot. repubs control Michigan (2010 Midterms did us in,) repubs have until tomorrow (6/5/18) to legalize it so it won't be on the ballot. That's what they did with the minimum wage increase even though what and when was different. I hope that it goes on the ballot. We have medical pot that was passed big time in 2008. repubs here are still messing with it now. Considering that repubs don't want anything that will motivate left leaners, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

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