Jesse SchecknerNovember 30, 2023
6min0
Across every category, a majority of Florida voters are positive about decriminalization.
Tag: decriminalizationCrowds gather to see Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. (Gabrielle Russon)
Jesse SchecknerNovember 30, 2023
Jason DelgadoDecember 4, 2020
‘Drugs have won’: Matt Gaetz defends federal pot decriminalization act as sole Republican co-sponsor
5min1549
The measure is unlikely to survive the Republican-controlled Senate.
A.G. GancarskiOctober 9, 2020
3min619
A similar bill failed by a lopsided vote in 2019.
Janelle Irwin TaylorSeptember 9, 2019
3min513
The bill would remove criminal liability for small amounts of pot.
Scott PowersJuly 25, 2018
3min1748
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Philip Levine sent a letter Wednesday to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi essentially asking her to decriminalize marijuana for the time by instructing state attorneys to not prosecute small-amount possession cases until at least after the elections. Levine, who joined his fellow Democratic gubernatorial candidates Chris King and Andrew Gillum in June in […]
Mitch PerryMay 12, 2016
4min411
House District 49 Democratic candidate Carlos Guillermo Smith is calling for a statewide decriminalization of marijuana, following the passage of similar measures in other municipalities in Florida over the past year. Smith made the declaration while testifying before the Orlando City Council on Monday, which was debating a local ordinance which calls for fining individuals found to be in possession […]
Associated PressJune 16, 2015
5min188
People caught with small amounts of marijuana could soon get a civil citation instead of a jail term in Florida’s largest county, which may become the first in the state to treat marijuana possession as a non-criminal act. The Miami-Dade County Commission is considering a proposal to let police issue $100 civil citations for possessing […]