Brian Olmo | Editor-in-chief
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis held a roundtable press conference encouraging people to vote against Amendment 3 in the Graham Center Ballroom on Nov. 4, 2024.
DeSantis emphasized early on in the conference that once the amendment is passed, it won’t be easy to overturn.
“The way I view it is like a constitutional amendment is permanent… You can’t change a constitutional amendment through normal legislation… If you aren’t 100% convinced this is a good idea, you got to vote no,” DeSantis said.
DeSantis then spoke about the origins of the amendment.
“This amendment was written by the CEO of a major weed megacorporation. This amendment has been sponsored by that corporation to the tune of $141.9 million.”
“I don’t think any single corporation has ever put in so much money to amend a state constitution in the history of the United States of America.”
DeSantis claims that weed is already legal in Florida through the medical marijuana program and said that not everyone who is on the program is using it for medical purposes. He also said that zero people are incarcerated for weed possession charges in the state.
One of DeSantis’s main claims against the amendment is that it will grant marijuana megacorporations blanket immunity from criminal and civil liabilities with limited economic and educational benefits for the state.
“There is nothing in this document that allocates a single provision to education,” said DeSantis.
“I don’t care if you love weed or you hate weed, this is a horribly written amendment.”
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