Just sent them all an email letting them know how ridiculous they are being on this and so many other issues that aren't even issues. Floridians voted by a 61% majority to have medicinal marijuana and our horrible state government has done everything they can to block what the citizens want.

Gotta fill those prison quotas

It’s because they are literally fascists.

I am going to give you a real answer, unlike what most other people are giving you.

Overwhelmingly, Americans vote to vote AGAINST things. Biden's election was mostly people voting against Trump.

Republican's have weaponized this, and basically made it their entire platform, constantly giving people things to be against, and their voters WANT things to be against, even if those things would benefit them.

Washington state: known for hating weed /s

Can’t imagine Maryland doing it either.

Yeah I clicked on this because I suspected it was clickbaity and this confirms it. It was legal in Washington before damn near any other state. Chill, y’all.

Right? We are very addicted......to the tax revenue.

"and Washington State, all of which are likely to vote the same as Florida."

In the history of wrong on reddit, there has never been anything wronger.

Trust me, The State of Washington would NEVER be likely to vote anything the same way as Florida.

Why would we ban it? It brought over 1.5 billion dollars in excise tax revenue in the last three years.

Also Republicans majority counties in WA state voted for cannabis in 2012. In fact yes-on-cannabis won more votes in those counties than the votes for Romney.

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1. in WA state, the governor banned private prisons starting in 2025.

2. If you're curious about how much WA state has made in tax revenue in cannabis, check here.). This state tries to be as data driven and data transparent as possible.

Edit #2: in case you're wondering how much money didn't go into the illegal drug market between June 2019-May 2022, $4.265 billion was spent by the residents of WA state. That netted the state $1.54 billion in tax revenue. This is all public info from the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board's site publishing the annual reports.

Yeah that was my first thought, way too popular here. That being said, I hope this shows to end up being as unpopular in Florida and other states as the public polls prove. Yall gotta make noise to your representatives.

I don’t even live in WA and I know this shit won’t happen. Why the hell would WA care what a state on the opposite side of the country does with a cannabis vote? The 3 Pacific coast states enjoy the tax revenue way too much.

Neither will Maryland, legalizing it for Rec use just passed overwhelmingly

Absolutely not Lmaoo. I just did a 50mg edibles last night. 2mg is so pathetically small it’s laughable to try and sell like that.

Yeah, I think we should hold off on declaring Florida the new America. It's the new Republican Party, but it's not the new America.

Yea Md is too blue to go for this, ironically the party of limited government no longer actually wants limited government. Outside of firearms, blue states are more free then red at this point.

Washington State isn’t either. Cannabis is a multi-million dollar industry in our state.

Absolutely, and neither are WA or VA.

OP: yes, this is absolute bullshit from FL, but let's stay grounded and realistic about what's happening--it's key to finding an actual way to fight this kind of nonsense.

If a Republican tries to bring it up for debate they're gonna get fuckin laughed outta the chamber. I wanna see that.

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Washington resident here. We clean up far too much in taxes to pass these limits. It'll never happen.

Only fascist states like Florida will do this. Most states ran by competent people won't kill a large revenue stream. That so much tax money just gone

irony

Funny way to spell "hypocrisy"

Or and hear me out here. There are a lot of people who claim libertarian as a cover for being right-wingers who have a contrarian bent.

I've never met a libertarian who has any clear vision of what libertarianism actually means to themselves

They can just identify what they don't like about the two official parties with a larger list for liberals than conservatives

Most Libertarians are fascists who like pot too much to admit it.

Yup. My parents were involved with the LP in the 1970’s and 80’s, back when they were the only ones advocating for gay marriage and ending the war on [some] drugs.

Libertarians these days think liberty consists of 2A rights and low/no taxes… and that’s it.

All the ones I know don't even vote

No kidding. You know what I did today? Drove my grown ass to the dispensery to talk to the nicest people around, picked up my order and was out the door in under 5 minutes. Doesn't matter that it is snowing and 20⁰, I'll take the ability to do all of that over anything Florida has to offer.

Lol imagine being in Wisconsin. Same climate. But republicans have a near veto proof majority despite dems winning the popular vote.

It's like the people who gave them power wanted them to oppress people but never once considered they'd be included in the oppressed group. They're getting exactly what they asked for. The intentions of these politicians were plainly laid out and they enthusiastically checked that box. Fuck em. Let that state rot. I'm certainly not losing sleep.

Especially now that DeSantis fucked the state with his personal grudge against Disney.

That happened in FL too. It won a ballot initiative with over 60% of the vote. Republicans in power were like "we don't care what the voters want" and just delayed it, buried it in red tape (you know, "small government"), and now this. Same with the ex-felons who served their time being able to vote.

People vote for this stuff in big numbers, Republicans say "haha no" and people keep voting for Republicans.

“For the people”

Legalized weed is 2 to 3 times as popular as Congress

Missouri here. Our governor and legislature is trying to pass laws like Florida's as fast as they can, but I think they'll walk away from this one.

Cannabis was fully legalized here last month. There's a rigorous process for applying for a growth or sales license, and friends and cronies of the governor are getting kickbacks on those, so those won't stop. Also, sales are projected to bring in a lot of revenue for the state, so we've at least got that going for us, which is good.

Bro 5 mg has be knocked down 😭 any more than that and it isn’t fun anymore, how tf do you do 50

My niece went to Florida for college. Most of us were against it but it wasn’t our choice. In 3 years she gone from volunteering for democratic candidates and worshipping AOC to telling me a I can’t do things because I’m a woman and telling racist jokes at work with both her superiors and the people she supervises. Obviously, there was already hate in her heart but I still say “FUCK FLORIDA” a lot.

The SEC was a shit conference once and can be again. Just saying.

As someone who lives in Washington just on the border of Idaho, I thank you for your support. I go to a pot shop on the border, and the number of people from Idaho who buy from Washington is astonishing. I mean, the taxes are nice to collect, but come on. I guess it's just easier to take advantage of other state's rights than creating your own.

Agreed.

“You make a statement every time you spend a dollar, what do you want to say?”

People talk about voting, but the biggest power we have in a capitalist society is how we spend our money. Don’t give your money to corporations/states/entities that don’t support your values.

Because with Republicans, every accusation is a confession. If they accuse a liberal of something, they're clearly planning on doing that or worse.

And then they'll complain that they can't legally smoke weed anymore and blame dems for it. Stupidity

And more weed

Holy shit I’m stealing that

OK I never heard this one but it's so accurate lol

I have a “no step on snek” patch. No I want a “please step on snek” patch

Yes. But they need someone with representative capacity.

They can't ban it due to 7th amendment and Florida Constitutional requirement of open courts, so they instead adopt impossible to meet standards to defacto ban nursing home wrongful death cases.

And most of those red states rely on their blue/purple cities to pay for their red areas too

"The belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them."

Love it when Republicans say they are anti-woke.

It's their way of saying, "I'm not a bigot or racist. I just don't like when people are against bigotry and racism."

Tons if Republicans also smoke the forbidden pants sausage. They still belong to the anti-lgbtq fascist party.

Lots of different types of (malignant) mental illness going around...

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And guess what areas are policed and enforced more heavily

Reminds me that baptists don't screw standing up, as somebody might think they're dancing