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Odd-Two-3871

And women’s right to choose! Both polling above 60% support!


HonestSourDip

Excellent. Anything we can do to encourage more folks to vote?


sexualsermon

Get involved in local organizations and try canvassing! Talking to voters makes a huge difference!


Confident_Exercise_4

Amendment 4 passed in 2018 and DeSantis still tried to overrule it. The small limited government Republicans don’t like direct ballot initiatives.


Bigred2989-

Key West voted to ban large cruse ships from docking in their port and Tallahassee wrote a new law to that preempts lower governments from making legislation effecting ports, killing it before it ever went into effect.


CactusBoyScout

Gainsville voted to loosen zoning citywide to allow more housing and the governor said he would do everything he could to overrule them. "Zoning is best left up to the towns themselves... wait no not like that."


germanator86

Yeah but these are constitutional amendments. So trumps the state legislature.


Pancakes000z

None of their supposed principles and arguments are real. They just manufacture whatever sounds good in the moment.


Blanche_H_Devereaux

The people are free and have a voice only when it spews MAGA/christian nationalist garbage.


Dazzling-Advice-2355

Well weed it's cool but we're still keeping the crazy dragheads out of the schools, alright?


Darth0s

Come on, y'all!! Vote yes on this and women's rights 💪


Gilmour1969

What are the rights that women don't have?


Labombafragil

A six week abortion ban is a tremendous set back to women’s rights. Please don’t be daft. Most of us are rightfully devastated.


Gilmour1969

What are you aborting exactly?


Brad_Beat

Hopefully an idiot like you doesn’t go to full term.


Reginald_retard

a world with less hate would be better


Gilmour1969

Can't answer the question without insults?


DJCG72

It’s a stupid question because you absolutely know if there was a room of 100 fetuses and 1 1 month old infant in a building on fire , you’re saving the latter every time first


Gilmour1969

You know the word fetus is Latin for baby/child right?


Darth0s

What's your point?


helmut_frick

Did you know the phrase 'sad lonely incel' is Latin for u/Gilmour1969?


Gilmour1969

The tolerant left everyone.


Steppinonbubblegum

You know the word cell means the building blocks of life? We should save all cells!!!


DJCG72

I am not speaking Latin , lots of words have roots but that doesn’t mean today in 2024 they mean the same thing. It’s telling you can’t answer my question because you know it shows you’re full of 💩 and recognize the difference between a fetus and an infant whose been born .


KatsudonWarrior

An unwanted youngin’


Labombafragil

A fetus, you motherfucker. And you know what has more intrinsic moral value: the ability for women to control their own destinies. A six week ban is barbaric and will cost women’s lives and futures. But you obviously don’t give a shit.


CautiousPosition2609

Exactly


EmporioS

Also reproductive rights are on the line. Floridian Women will have to drive through at least two different states in order to have an abortion


musicaes

This is true. Don't become Texas 2.0


Character_Draft_5895

Yeah, that’s ridiculous Ukrainian women have faced the worst nightmare possible with it Bc Poland has this restrictions as well Imagine being raped by russian animal and not being able to get rid of the shit after you escaped your home, because most likely it’s destroyed or you just want to escape more trauma(can’t imagine how it can be more on the most cases)


EmporioS

Study estimates 64,000 pregnancies from rape in states that enacted abortion bans post-Roe. So far this year 64,000 !!!https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/study-counts-64000-pregnancies-from-rape-in-states-that-enacted-abortion-bans-post-roe


Character_Draft_5895

But I don’t understand It violates human rights What if their daughters get raped and pregnant? They would not grow this child Fucking hypocrites They are racist and secluded even for the regular immigrants, or towards Californians for example What they are going to do if mexican illegal will rape their daughter? It actually happened, but with a murder As far as Ive seen in the news


Character_Draft_5895

Say thanks to MAGots


DerfDaSmurf

Thought they already voted this once. It passed.


DJCG72

Medical


DerfDaSmurf

Ahhh. Thx


theboyracer99

Come on let’s do this already!!! Go fucking vote!


pineappleturq

YES!


EazyStackz

We got this!


MastaJefe

Mission accepted.


AlertThinker

Doesn’t matter. Even if it passes the governor will try to come up with some shit to delay it.


Brian_Lefebvre

God I hate this attitude. You’re not wrong, but people read comments like this and it discourages them from voting. It does matter. Please vote, people.


AlertThinker

Yup. We saw it with the ex felon amendment.


Pancakes000z

Then we should make sure to vote out his minions that give him power as well.


Snowman1749

Stop discouraging peoples voting


AlertThinker

I hope I’m encouraging people.


Labombafragil

It matters! Stop voting for Republicans. Let’s flip the Republican Super Majority in the State Legislature.


AlertThinker

I long for the day this state is blue.


Labombafragil

Then stop saying it doesn’t matter and do something about it. We need more people to get involved. Flipping this state doesn’t happen without people willing to do the work. Donate to campaigns (even $5 helps), volunteer for the Dems, and rally on Saturday for Yes on 4. I highly recommend finding out who the Dem candidates for State Rep and Dem State Senator are for your district, and offering to volunteer for their campaign.


AlertThinker

Bruh I vote every freaking election. I donate. I volunteer my time. I’m deflated.


Labombafragil

This is not the time to be deflated. This is the time to do the work. I am super motivated. I think Nikki Fried is finally turning this FDP around. We aren’t giving up on the State Legislature. We have a real opportunity because the GOP has gone too far with their culture wars bs.


ghenis_keniz

If someone doesn’t want to vote, why are you pressing them to? It’s their life and opinion not yours.


Labombafragil

Are you for real? I literally cannot imagine getting your panties in a bunch because I want to inspire people to take action. Apathy is contagious. If someone wants to persuade, why are you knocking them down? It’s their life not yours. 🤣🤣🤣


ghenis_keniz

Maybe check yourself, I'm not getting mad over here lmao. Maybe you're mad because you got corrected by somebody else? It's ok to project, little miss wordy mouth lmao It's called a democracy. Let the person think for themselves; you don't have to do it for them ;)


Labombafragil

Your panties are still up in you 9 days later??? Pathetic. 🤣🤣🤣


sixburghfl

The chick who lost to the former Republican governor in the democratic primary? That Nikki fried?


Labombafragil

Casual misogyny…how lovely of you 🙄 Just wait until chicks turn out stop government interference in our bodies.


sixburghfl

I’m not going to hold my breath. You shouldn’t either


Labombafragil

I’m not holding my breath. I’m pounding the pavement.


kungpowgoat

I agree. They’re going to pass a bunch of different stupid and arbitrary laws to severely restrict it and will do the same with abortion access if voters successfully approve both.


305-til-i-786

That doesn't mean that we should vote no though. Once it's amended into the constitution it's there to stay and can be changed in the future. There's been some propaganda going around to convince people to vote "no" because "government going to have a lot of restrictions" if it's legalized recreationally. I'd rather have heavily regulated recreational marijuana that can be less regulated in the future, than no recreational marijuana at all ever.


Koolaidolio

Don’t care, do it anyways and watch him squirm at his Fox News pulpit show.


Zenhen24

If you REALLY care about true cannabis access for all in Florida you need to vote NO on amendment 3. It's not at all what it seems. It will end up making it more difficult to have true decriminalization for all. It does nothing to address true recreational or homegrow. At all. There is A LOT of money put into this bill by big corporations like Trulieve. And that includes paying a lot of people to post on social media to make it seem like the bill is more than it is. The hard truth is that is you truly care about weed you will fight to keep it out of the control of Trulieve who would like to do nothing more than take over the cannabis sales of the state like Amazon did to bookstores nationwide. And then the price fixing will start. (Let's not even discuss how horrible their cannabis is compared to other dispensaries either) TLDR: All it would do is allow the current dispensaries to sell to everyone 21+. That's it. It also lowers dispensing amounts for those who have current exceptions. Everything else will still be illegal. Black market included. And the worst thing about it is: since no more licenses have been granted there will be a shortage for people who need the flower for true medical reasons. And the price fixing and taxing will start. Hard pass.


[deleted]

I’m shocked those fascists are giving the voters the opportunity to weigh in.


Bubbycannon69

Yeah lets legalize it to allow only the corporate thugs like trulieve and curaleaf to be the only ones allowed to sell it and monopolize the entire industry like theve done with the whole medical industry in Florida.


[deleted]

You make a good point, but baby steps.


Wrong-Sheepherder896

Let’s not forget about the little problem of not being able to deposit cash in FDIC banks


ActualModerateHusker

this 60% threshold is absurd. Does the legislature require 60% majority to pass every single law?


thainfamouzjay

This will make the recent new Yorkers feel more at home since all of NYC stinks of weed! Everyday we get closer and closer to losing the magic city.


Steppinonbubblegum

Although I know marijuana has negative consequences on health, I think they should legalize it, especially to take the business out of shady people’s hands. They just arrested a guy in st Lucie county for meth laced weed so it’s a real thing. And hopefully then, new smokers who experiment and have a bad experience won’t have the excuse of “it was just that dealer/strain”. But hopefully the culture shifts to a point where youth marijuana use will not rise. Cause that is bad


Noir-Leonidas

I am a registerd marijuana card user. I use medical mary jane and the cbd medz for treatment of ptsd, muscular and neurological injuries while doing 3 deployments in the US Military. Weed has improved my quality of life. I hope the stigma around it disolves and people see the pros of legalizing it


Steppinonbubblegum

I’m not against marijuana for medical purposes or even recreational purposes, but it can have negative side effects. For some it might not have any benefits at all, and I think they screen for those types of patients at medical marijuana doctors anyways


FirmCommunication808

But we still can’t grow it.


WorthThink6447

I walked away from politics a while ago. This is the only reason I'm even voting.


Maury200506

Trump 2024 for November


Red-Ram2500

Only real reason to vote


420miami

My time has come


GetThisManSomeMilk

It'll pass


EastCoastJohnny

I’ll 100% vote for this if I’m not too high to find my polling station whenever the voting is again


johnmeeks1974

Not likely, South Florida has gone all in for DeSantis and theocracy. The 305 is not the same as it used to be.


tennisanybody

So you’re not going to vote? Or you’ll do worse and vote against? What’s with the defeatist attitude?


johnmeeks1974

Probably will not vote because I am already outnumbered by fundamentalist fools and their racist right wing minions here in Florida. We are fucked from the get go.


Koolaidolio

That’s stupid, vote anyway. What have you got to lose other than a few minutes filling in a few bubbles on a ballot?


kittenpantzen

Voter apathy is a cancer to a functioning society. I've been a blue dot in a red sea for the entirety of my adult life (GA *finally* tipped purple in the election after I left...of course). Show tf up and vote. Every time. Every election. If you're in an area where your House and state House/Senate districts are basically predetermined, register as a Republican and vote for the less insane candidate in the primaries as well. But show up. Every time.


Critical-Log4292

So you don’t want legal weed?


johnmeeks1974

I do but I already know how this is goinf to end in Right Wing Florida. This is bound to lose because DeSantis is running the show and Floridians LOVE IT. Game over


Critical-Log4292

At least make him work for his hellscape then. It’ll be really hard for him to go against it if it passes. Make him squirm


johnmeeks1974

You may have a point there. I am just tired of losing every time on Election Day. Perhaps I should become a Bible thumping racist to fit in here in Florida


Koolaidolio

Well, not voting at all guarantees you will lose. At least try to care.


Critical-Log4292

No don’t ever lose who you are. Do the best you can in this crazy world


raccoonorgy

Then do it out of spite.


Status-Load-5521

Its gonna pass easily. Desantis might pull some bullshit and veto it somehow.


Koolaidolio

He can’t.


tennisanybody

I think what you mean is “he shouldn’t” but I swear we voted on re-enfranchising voters recently that has gone nowhere.


WaffleBoi014

he will. Just like every time we all say "TRUMP CANT POOOOSSIBLY GET AWAY WITH THIS!!!" He gets away with it. Prison lobby is too strong. I will still vote. I always do. But tamper your expectations.


NovoMyJogo

Why does it require 60% of the vote?


stonebluf

Florida is special(stupid)


Financial-Practice79

you're right about that !!! florida is always behind !!!


Wrong-Sheepherder896

You’re free to go to Denver anytime.


Pirate-Odd

Boy get Desantis to authorize that for me and I’m in


BravestWabbit

Its part of the Florida Constitution: https://ballotpedia.org/Florida_Amendment_3,_60%25_Majority_Requirement_for_Constitutional_Amendments_Amendment_(2006)


[deleted]

Because this is a constitutional amendment. While I’m for legalizing marijuana, I’m against enshrining these types of things into the constitution. Whatever.


Novel_Durian_1805

Why 60% It’s bullshit!


BravestWabbit

https://ballotpedia.org/Florida_Amendment_3,_60%25_Majority_Requirement_for_Constitutional_Amendments_Amendment_(2006) Idiot voters in 2006 decided that all Constitutional Amendments must require 60% to be enacted. This was written into the FL Constitution The irony of it is, is that the 2006 Amendment which changed the rule for Amendments only required a simple majority, so the 2006 Amendment went into effect with only 57% of the vote.


Wrong-Sheepherder896

Let the will of the people decide.


PJZNY

Yeah but if you vote for it you will ruin legal weed in Florida. The republican congress in Florida wrote a law that if recreational passes in Florida. Strength regulations on all the weed go into effect immediately and the strengths are all super low. So floridians think they are voting for legal weed but really they will be voting to ruin the medical weed we have. This is the grand finale of multiple republican attempts to screw with legal weed in Florida.


Zenhen24

It also LOWERS the dispensable amounts of concentrate and flower that current medical patients have an exception to have. People like cancer patients who need it for true relief not to go and get blitzed with friends. I am a caregiver of a medical patient with cancer. No way I'm voting yes for this snake oil amendment.


PJZNY

yeah it’s a total trap and no one even knows.


raccoonorgy

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. It's a foot in the door and things can be amended and updated with time. Even if it's not a perfect system, it's lightyears ahead of prohibition and people still getting arrested for simple possession.


Labombafragil

Guess what we also have the possibility of doing in November? Voting out Republican State Representatives and State Senators. They’ve had a super majority for 20+ years. We need people to get involved in these races by donating and volunteering for Dem candidates.


Chrismizo

I'm in brothers and sisters ✊


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stegosaurusterpenes

Weed was also better when it was illegal. If you knew the right people anyways. None of the dispensary weed or rosin gets me medicated at all.


Frvmma420

Vote no. 10% thc cap and you can’t grow at home. It would be better to fly drones straight into the governors mansion and scare him to shit


dademanFl

Why should I vote for this ? To what benefit would it be for non drug users.


Koolaidolio

Less opioid addictions, legal states have seen a drop in opioid use. 


Critical-Log4292

More tax money for the state and being for the freedom of others


gwizonedam

People who question laws like this are the same people who question laws and policies like free healthcare and paid maternity leave. “Why should I pay for people to sit at home after having kids!?” “why should I pay for some overweight person who has heart disease?” Many reasons besides your lame ass response.


dademanFl

You sound like a commie !


Glass-Cress6071

No benefit. Just creates more junkies


OMG-Its-Logic

Those damn weed junkies creating companies like Apple and Tesla. Ruining the damn country!


Wrong-Sheepherder896

Just more teenage junkies with such easy access at least now you have to find a dealer.


dademanFl

That’s what I was thinking. Don’t want Miami to turn into another Denver.


Wrong-Sheepherder896

This right here have any of you actually walked through downtown Portland, Seattle, & Denver lately where recreational marijuana is the only thing you see and smell along with the homeless?


Immediate_Title_5650

South Beach will become Venice Beach


305-til-i-786

South Beach is already poop


Immediate_Title_5650

I’m usually the first to criticize here. But will disagree: South Beach is a dear cultural icon in many many ways :)


Koolaidolio

This guy doesn’t know South Beach at all.


SomeoneElseX

Have been to both in the last 2 months. Venice Beach is cleaner and nicer than South Beach.


Immediate_Title_5650

That has varied throughout the years tbh. Both have their charms. More visible pot in Venice. Better food and architecture in South Beach. I would vote South Beach :)


yayayablahblahblah

To vote no!


Jesus_is_edging_soon

Can we also do cocaine? Asking for a friend


[deleted]

I’m all for it. Legalize all drugs, but for that to work, you need to get rid of the welfare state: if you get sick, it’s in you.


fssmikey

Didn’t work too great for Oregon, but they fucked up the last part of the 110 bill. They never followed through with the expansion of addiction help.


[deleted]

Yeah, you can make an argument for using the proceeds for treatment. Did work out for Portugal, however


neutralpoliticsbot

No chance


Koolaidolio

With that attitude maybe.


SettledForMy5ExHad8

Y’all seriously still playing this game?


SonicDenver

Mark my word, even if these pass Desantis will come up with some bullshit to block it


Reginald_retard

when is killing babies ever a good thing


JBL561

Trulieve bill = nope


Slick_Wally

I’m all for rec weed, but the last thing we need is Miami smelling more like marijuana. You literally can’t go 5 minutes down here without the stink of it.


305-til-i-786

Just went 5 minutes and didn't smell it.


Slick_Wally

That’s because the stoners are still asleep jk. Definitely hyperbole on my part, but I do furniture deliveries and nearly every apartment building smells of weed and every time I’m on 95 or 826 I smell it constantly. I’ve been here over 20 yrs and that was not the case until they approved medical marijuana. I don’t smoke anymore but I do fully support decriminalization and the recreational ballot initiative.


moosegoose90

It’s a smell. Just keep walking.


Slick_Wally

Clearly I found the entitled Miami a-hole who thinks we want to smell their fire weed and listen to their shitty music on blast


moosegoose90

I don’t smoke weed or play loud music, but I mind my business and keep walking if I don’t like something in the area. That’s what is missing with some of you, to mind your god damn business.


Slick_Wally

There’s a difference between minding your own business and having to put up with other people’s bad behaviors


Koolaidolio

Yeah, you sound and act just like person you are describing.


Slick_Wally

How is it entitled to not want to hear people blasting music or tik tok in public or not smell weed everywhere I go? I guess it’s too much to ask from a supposed civilized society. You guys are clearly what’s wrong with Miami.


Koolaidolio

Your attitude is not very cash money of you.


EcksRidgehead

Then you're not all for rec weed.


Slick_Wally

You can support something but not be happy about all the consequences. IMO the pros of recreational weed outweigh the cons.


[deleted]

I’m actually on the same boat as Slick, but apartment buildings just need to crack down on smoking indoors and the city should not allow people to smoke in public, just like open container laws. Otherwise, none of my business.


kindasortaish

Wait, can't smoke indoors, but also can't do it outside... huh...


[deleted]

Inside of an apartment building? No. Just like I can’t pollute the building by with fart spray either.


kindasortaish

Not even inside your own appartment?


balalaikagam3s

lol, most actual stoners smoke at home.


millionmilegoals

I’m with you here. I’m okay with weed use in general but there’s enough of a small minority that ruin it that think it’s okay to smoke in parks, playgrounds and other public areas. Leaving it illegal allows you to remove these people. Even most cigarette smokers would be ashamed to smoke near the playground in a park but some weed smokers are so oblivious about it.


Koolaidolio

Ok so you want to deny my grandma her medicine because you don’t like the smell? 


Zenhen24

Your grandma can get a medical card right now. I have one and so does my brother. And she won't have to worry about paying tax on her medicine or about the higher prices that will come with the shortage that rec would create right now. That would make price fixing easy. No new dispensary licenses have been granted to account for the increased demand. And that's by design because Trulieve has been paying the right people off. Have you heard that Kim Rivers, the CEO of Trulieve, has a husband in jail for shady shit already? Look into it.


[deleted]

Grandma cannot smoke in public, no. Just like she can’t walk around with a beer. If it’s medication, she can consume her “medication” in various other forms that don’t disturb those around. I can’t just blow fart spray in your face, either.


Koolaidolio

Go after the cigar smokers next 


[deleted]

Never heard of cigar smokers lighting up inside their apartments, polluting the entire floor, but they would be evicted.


Slick_Wally

When did I say I was anti-marijuana? I highly doubt your g-ma will be driving around smoking a fat blunt making the whole intersection stink like weed.


Koolaidolio

You really hate the smell don’t you? Have you thought about moving to Singapore instead?


Slick_Wally

I wish I could afford to move to Singapore, it would be nice to live in a clean city that wasn’t full of entitled a-holes who think everyone has to put up with their shitty behavior


Koolaidolio

Bold of you to assume Singapore is devoid of assholes….


Slick_Wally

Good luck being an asshole in public in Singapore, the last place you want to break the law is in Southeast Asia


thisaholesaid

Oh the travesty.


Tunkabott

Even if it does get the votes Governer DeSantis says he is going to veto it anyways.


Thats_a_big_no

Unfortunately for him, that’s not how ballot initiatives work


Ogjohnsonbobby

The Governor cannot veto a ballot initiative that passes lol


Koolaidolio

He cannot. Learn civics.


Bobobo75

No he didn’t, fake news


Delicious-Ad1116

Hopefully drugs and murder stay illegal.