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Y | He has teamed with fellow attorney Bill Wohlsifer and marijuana activist Karen DA Goldstein to form the corporation Sensible Florida and an associated group, Regulate Florida. Together, they have developed a proposed amendment to the state con- stitution that would legalize and regulate GE | NIGHT+ A recreational marijuana for adults. T S The “Florida Cannabis Act” proposes legalizing pot and regulating it like alcohol. It would allow anyone 21 or older to purchase Shutterstock and possess up to an ounce of marijuana and, market. “The focus is definitely going to be year — that it may have to give some back to its Florida has no such big financial backer to if licensed, grow up to six plants at home. all about protecting our children,” he says. residents. (Officials, however, like to say that help its campaign. “We don’t have a John “Realistically, it gives adults the choice to Minardi says criminalizing marijuana has the reason for legalizing pot is to make it safer, Morgan or a Sheldon Adelson financing use cannabis for whatever and whenever they only led to an extremely expensive, failed not to make money.) And public opinion may us,” Minardi says. “We’re raising money want,” Minardi tells New Times. “It doesn’t al- “war on drugs” — a distraction from more be shifting: Cities including Hallandale Beach, by selling shirts and spreading the word low for driving while on cannabis; it limits the important problems. “We know that since the Miami Beach, and Key West have announced with our volunteers to sign the petition.” age to 21 — much like the way alcohol is sold 1970s, when cannabis criminalization had they will decriminalize possession of small He says that the petition is on the group’s and regulated. It creates a licenses-regulated become a prime focus for the government, amounts of weed. In the past few months, website for people to download and sign system of distribution