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Smart & Safe Florida is pivoting from courtrooms to clipboards.

The committee behind the recreational marijuana amendment won’t appeal last week’s ruling that tossed out roughly 200,000 petition signatures — a hit delivered after the DeSantis administration said the forms didn’t meet state formatting requirements.

But the campaign says the setback isn’t fatal. In fact, they insist it barely dents their trajectory toward the 2026 ballot.

In a statement, the campaign said it’s confident it can clear the 880K-plus validated-signature threshold without dragging the dispute into another monthslong appeals process that could chew up precious time before the Feb. 1 deadline.

The group says more than a millio

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