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RandySF

(71,401 posts)
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 03:17 PM Sep 2024

Vote No on 3 ad says recreational pot amendment would create a monopoly

Will a recreational pot measure give one company an economic high?

A new advertisement from the Vote No on 3 campaign asserts that the ballot measure was written to give the state’s largest medical marijuana company a monopoly on the Florida market.

“They wrote it, they rigged it, and they’re hoping you fall for it,” a narrator says in the 30-second spot. “Amendment 3 isn’t the ‘marijuana’ amendment. It’s the ‘monopoly’ amendment.”

While the ad itself never mentions a business by name, a press release makes clear the target: Trulieve. That company through mid-August provided $65 million of the nearly $72 million raised to date for the Smart & Safe Florida campaign supporting Amendment 3. That followed the company completely financing the effort to get the measure on the ballot.

Vote No on 3 campaign officials predicted the measure will fail if voters see it as an effort by a single company to back its own private interests.




https://floridapolitics.com/archives/694871-vote-no-on-3-ad-says-recreational-pot-amendment-would-create-a-monopoly/

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Vote No on 3 ad says recreational pot amendment would create a monopoly (Original Post) RandySF Sep 2024 OP
That almost happened in Ohio about ten years ago: it would have put it into the hands of three companies ... marble falls Sep 2024 #1
not really. cartels will always underprice artificially high prices set by the legal pushers nt msongs Sep 2024 #2

marble falls

(62,714 posts)
1. That almost happened in Ohio about ten years ago: it would have put it into the hands of three companies ...
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 03:23 PM
Sep 2024

... pot heads voted against it.

msongs

(70,379 posts)
2. not really. cartels will always underprice artificially high prices set by the legal pushers nt
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 04:32 PM
Sep 2024
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