Florida judge’s ruling on marijuana petition signatures won’t be appealed

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TALLAHASSEE — The political committee behind a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow recreational marijuana will not appeal a judge’s decision upholding state election officials’ invalidation of 200,000 petition signatures.

In a court document filed Tuesday, lawyers for the Smart & Safe Florida committee said they were waiving the right to appeal “to provide finality to this matter and certainty to the result.”

The committee faces a Feb. 1 deadline to submit 880,062 verified signatures to get the proposed constitutional amendment on the 2026 ballot.

The state Division of Elections website on Tuesday showed the committee had submitted 675,307 valid signatures.

That tally, however, might not reflect the actual number of valid sig