When Floridians go to the polls this November, they’ll be deciding an important question: whether to let businesses sell marijuana, as they’re currently able to do in 24 other states, including New York.
Florida’s Amendment 3 commands some powerful supporters, including a recent endorsement by former President Donald Trump.
It’s a bellwether for marijuana legalization’s prospects nationwide.
But while backers have talked up the alleged injustice of marijuana prohibition, they’ve avoided discussing the real effect of the law: making it legal to profit off pot.
Amendment 3 would permit medical dispensaries and other, future license recipients to sell weed to any adult.
That’s reason enough for Floridians—and everyone else—to be skeptical of legalization.
A legal market would make big businesses happy, which is why they’ve spent so much pushing for one.
But Floridians shouldn’t trust their communities, or their kids, in the hands of profit-hungry drug companies.
To be sure, big business wants legal weed.
Florida is the second largest state (behind Texas) without a legal market.
For marijuana businesses, which have seen market values collapse amid struggles in other states, that’s an exciting prospect.
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Charles Fain Lehman is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.
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