HEMP - DeSantis Says Cannabis Legalization Amendment Will Protect Weed Rights Better Than 1st 2nd Amendments Protect Free Speech Gun Rights | Benzinga
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is intensifying his opposition to the proposed cannabis legalization ballot, known as Amendment 3.
At a Tuesday press briefing, DeSantis said the measure would safeguard cannabis rights more robustly than the First Amendment protects free speech or the Second Amendment safeguards gun rights.
"There's no limitations in the amendment language," DeSantis said. "And so I think what will happen is — it's more broad, this amendment, for you to be able to possess and smoke pot than the First Amendment is, than the Second Amendment is, than like core amendments that grew out of the founding of this country."
Asked about the Florida Freedom Fund PAC, which he explicitly said was created to defeat Amendment 3 and the abortion rights initiative in the November elections, DeSantis reiterated his beef against marijuana: the smell. ...