Florida residents will vote on whether to amend the state constitution to support abortion and marijuana use. Currently, recreational use of marijuana outside of medical reasons is prohibited, and abortion is prohibited after six weeks of pregnancy, with the exception of rape, incest, human trafficking or to save the mother’s life. DeSantis highlighted a single marijuana company that contributed $100 million to the ballot initiative.

“People say it’s about the legalization of recreational weed – that’s partly true. They say you are allowed to own it and smoke it, but only if you buy it from them. Because they’re creating a cartel in the Florida Constitution, so if you want to grow your own marijuana, it’s not in the amendment,” DeSantis said on Fox News. Ingraham’s angle Monday. “Even if you like marijuana, it’s not the appropriate vehicle.”

DeSantis is an open departure from former President Donald Trump’s stance on the issue, just as he is in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana.

In addition to voting against Amendment 3, DeSantis recommended that Floridians vote against Amendment 4. He suggested that as voters learn more about these initiatives, they will oppose them.

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“As people learn how this Amendment 4 is written, support is traumatically diminishing. You see that. It is essentially a proposal for abortion up to birth, for virtually any reason. This eliminates parental consent for minors,” the Florida governor said. “But then, something that’s probably more radical than what California did, they replaced the requirement that a doctor be the one performing the abortion with the term ‘health care provider.’

Florida reported 377,035 in-person early voters after its first day Monday, which set a record after participating in the 2020 election. Republican voters, in particular, set an in-person voting record with more than 202 ,000 ballots, almost double that of Democratic voters, according to the Republican Party of Florida.