If you’ve attended any large public events lately — such as Orlando’s Come Out With Pride parade or last week’s Fiesta in the Park — there’s a good chance you were stopped by someone collecting signatures to put recreational marijuana back on the ballot in 2026 . Maybe more than one someone: Signature-gatherers armed with clipboards and answers to common questions were out in force — and many people were signing, despite the requirement to provide significant personal information including a driver’s license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number.

Many of the people signing remembered that this issue had been on the ballot as Amendment 3 in 2024, when it fell short of the 60% needed for passage. They might not have known that Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state off

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