Adult Personal Use of Marijuana
Sponsor: Smart & Safe Florida
The marker is the 60% share this measure needed to pass.
In plain English
This measure would permit adults age 21 and older to possess, purchase, and use marijuana products for personal consumption through smoking, ingestion, or other methods. It would authorize Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers and other state-licensed entities to cultivate, process, manufacture, sell, and distribute these products and accessories.
Arguments for and against
Attributed claims extracted from the public record. Neither side is endorsed here.
Supporters argue that legalization would generate tax revenue for the state, create a regulated market that displaces illegal drug sales, and allow adults to make personal consumption choices consistent with other states that have adopted similar policies.
Opponents argue that legalization could increase youth access and impaired driving, create public health costs, and conflict with federal drug scheduling, and that Florida's existing medical marijuana program provides sufficient legal access.
Voter considerations
The measure required a 60% supermajority to pass; it received 55.9% support and therefore failed, meaning Florida's prohibition on non-medical adult marijuana use remains in effect.
Who's behind this measure?
Public positions and campaign money—not a recommendation for how to vote.
Supporting groups and campaigns
- Smart & Safe Florida (opens in a new tab)Secondary reporting
- Democratic Party of Florida (opens in a new tab)Secondary reporting
- Trulieve (opens in a new tab)Secondary reporting
More groups (1)
- Florida Young Republicans (opens in a new tab)Secondary reporting
- Smart & Safe Florida
- Raised
- $153,787,032.89
- Spent
- $153,609,567.33
Snapshot retrieved Oct 28, 2026 · USDReports through Dec 31, 2024Donors & reporting details · Smart & Safe Florida
Totals as compiled by Ballotpedia for reports covering through 2024-12-31; cash contributions $152,473,929.64, in-kind contributions $1,313,103.25, cash expenditures $152,296,464.08. Ballotpedia cites Florida Campaign Finance Database — Smart & Safe Florida (https://dos.myflorida.com/elections/candidates-committees/campaign-finance/campaign-finance-database/).
Reported donors are included in receipts, not additional money. This is not a complete donor list. Contributions do not establish influence over an outcome.
Reported across this side’s campaigns; not assigned to an individual committee. See source for the reporting window.
More donors to this side
- Verano Holdings (opens in a new tab) · $3,509,470.00Secondary reporting
- CuraLeaf (opens in a new tab) · $3,000,000.00Secondary reporting
- Green Thumb Industries (opens in a new tab) · $2,259,470.00Secondary reporting
Reported donors are part of receipts, not additional money. This is not a complete donor list.
Opposing groups and campaigns
- Floridians Against Recreational Marijuana (opens in a new tab)Secondary reporting
- Keep Florida Clean (opens in a new tab)Secondary reporting
- Florida Freedom Fund (opens in a new tab)Secondary reporting
More groups (6)
- Republican Party of Florida (opens in a new tab)Secondary reporting
- My Florida Green (opens in a new tab)Secondary reporting
- Drug Free America Foundation (opens in a new tab)Secondary reporting
- Florida Chamber of Commerce (opens in a new tab)Secondary reporting
- Florida Sheriffs Association (opens in a new tab)Secondary reporting
- Smart Approaches to Marijuana (opens in a new tab)Secondary reporting
- Keep Florida Clean
- Raised
- $24,990,394.10
- Spent
- $24,879,401.44
Snapshot retrieved Oct 28, 2026 · USDReports through Dec 31, 2024Donors & reporting details · Keep Florida Clean
Totals as compiled by Ballotpedia for reports covering through 2024-12-31; cash contributions $24,990,394.10, in-kind contributions $0.00, cash expenditures $24,879,401.44. Ballotpedia cites Florida Campaign Finance Database — Smart & Safe Florida (https://dos.myflorida.com/elections/candidates-committees/campaign-finance/campaign-finance-database/).
Reported donors are included in receipts, not additional money. This is not a complete donor list. Contributions do not establish influence over an outcome.
- Florida Freedom Fund
- Raised
- $8,615,889.96
- Spent
- $6,502,958.46
Snapshot retrieved Oct 28, 2026 · USDReports through Dec 31, 2024Donors & reporting details · Florida Freedom Fund
Totals as compiled by Ballotpedia for reports covering through 2024-12-31; cash contributions $8,615,809.33, in-kind contributions $80.63, cash expenditures $6,502,877.83. Ballotpedia cites Florida Campaign Finance Database — Smart & Safe Florida (https://dos.myflorida.com/elections/candidates-committees/campaign-finance/campaign-finance-database/).
Reported donors are included in receipts, not additional money. This is not a complete donor list. Contributions do not establish influence over an outcome.
- Floridians Against Recreational Marijuana
- Raised
- $3,800.00
- Spent
- $115.50
Snapshot retrieved Oct 28, 2026 · USDReports through Dec 31, 2024Donors & reporting details · Floridians Against Recreational Marijuana
Totals as compiled by Ballotpedia for reports covering through 2024-12-31; cash contributions $3,800.00, in-kind contributions $0.00, cash expenditures $115.50. Ballotpedia cites Florida Campaign Finance Database — Smart & Safe Florida (https://dos.myflorida.com/elections/candidates-committees/campaign-finance/campaign-finance-database/).
Reported donors are included in receipts, not additional money. This is not a complete donor list. Contributions do not establish influence over an outcome.
Reported across this side’s campaigns; not assigned to an individual committee. See source for the reporting window.
More donors to this side
- Secure Florida's Future, Inc. (opens in a new tab) · $3,100,000.00Secondary reporting
- Keep Florida Clean (opens in a new tab) · $1,100,000.00Secondary reporting
- Floridians for Economic Leadership (opens in a new tab) · $1,000,000.00Secondary reporting
- Patricia Duggan (opens in a new tab) · $1,000,000.00Secondary reporting
- Save our Society from Drugs (opens in a new tab) · $1,000,000.00Secondary reporting
- Patricia Duggan (opens in a new tab) · $600,000.00Secondary reporting
Reported donors are part of receipts, not additional money. This is not a complete donor list.
Dated snapshots, not live totals. Missing amounts are not zero. Committees are shown separately.
About sources & coverage
Group positions come from the linked sources. Secondary reporting and first-party statements are distinct from official filings. Committee-wide totals may fund other measures; they are not allocations to this measure. Donor amounts are already part of receipts; neither donors nor overlapping snapshots are added together.
Groups as listed by Ballotpedia (secondary reporting), retrieved 2026-10-28: campaigns, parties, unions and organizations; elected officials and candidates omitted.
Figures compiled by Ballotpedia (secondary reporting) from Florida Campaign Finance Database — Smart & Safe Florida for reports covering through 2024-12-31; retrieved 2026-10-28. Donor lists are the top donors to all committees on that side; they are not allocated to individual committees.
Official ballot summary
Allows adults 21 years or older to possess, purchase, or use marijuana products and accessories for non-medical personal consumption by smoking, ingestion, or otherwise; allows Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers, and other state licensed entities, to acquire, cultivate, process, manufacture, sell, and distribute such products and accessories.
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