Amendment 3 is a constitutional ballot measure that would allow adults 21 years and older to access lab-tested cannabis from licensed dispensaries.
Florida voters have an opportunity to make their state the 25th in the nation to legalize adult-use cannabis on Election Day, but they’ll need a 60% supermajority to do so—the state’s threshold for all constitutional ballot measures.
Sponsored by Smart and Safe Florida and financially backed by the state’s existing medical cannabis companies, Amendment 3 proposes the following:
To satisfy the state’s single-subject rule, Amendment 3 does not do the following:
While Amendment 3 is self-implementing with an effective date of six months following its potential passage, nothing prevents the state Legislature from writing follow-up legislation to provide for home grows or other reform items that legalization advocates could not include in the ballot language per state law.
According to the ballot measure’s text, “Nothing in this amendment prohibits the [Florida] Legislature from enacting laws that are consistent with this amendment.”