Florida-manden uddelte gratis marihuana, fordi det var jul. rekreativt brug er stadig ulovligt der
St Yahpetersburg, Florida - Richard Ellis Spurrier, 67, stood downtown on Christmas and handed marijuana to strangers because, he told police, it was Christmas. Officers found 45 grams on him near Second Street and Central Avenue around 11:30 p.m., shake still hanging off his right sleeve, a digital scale, a prescription bottle with his name, a glass pipe, and a sword hidden in his walking cane.
Han blev anklaget for besiddelse med henblik på at distribuere og besiddelse af narkotika paraphernalia, derefter frigivet på sin egen anerkendelse på betingelse af, at han holder sig ud af den blok.
Florida har en lang bænk af mænd, der ikke vil holde op med at tilbyde officerer en skål. Arthur Carracino satte Flagler County-betjente ned i maj 2019, viste dem sin plante og bad dem ryge med ham. De arresterede ham i stedet.
Medical marijuana had been legal in Florida since the 2016 ballot measure. Recreational use was the fight that ate the next decade. Amendment 3, on November 5, 2024, would have let adults 21 and older possess up to three ounces. It took about 56 percent — a majority, short of the 60 percent supermajority Florida demands to change its constitution. Gov. Ron DeSantis spent state muscle killing it. Trulieve, the state’s largest medical operator, sank more than $140 million into Smart & Safe Florida. The committee tried again for 2026. State election officials threw out petition batches, courts backed the DeSantis administration, and in early February 2026 the Department of State listed the recreational initiative among 22 citizen amendments that had failed to qualify. Smart & Safe called the call premature and said 1.4 million signatures would hold once counted.
Floridians Against Recreational Marijuana was already in the field in 2019. Campaign manager Brian Swensen promised the measure would raise health-care prices, kill jobs, and soak taxpayers. Senator Marco Rubio, on the 2016 trail, called pot “as insidious as alcohol” and said there is “no positive impact to using marijuana” unless the FDA turns it into medicine.
Et flertal af vælgerne i Florida har allerede sagt ja. Forfatningens 60 procent væg og guvernørens kontor bliver ved med at sige nej. Spurriers julegave er stadig en forbrydelse i Sunshine-staten.
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