Trulieve

Trulieve pitched in $5 million from Sept. 7-13 ─ $92.77 million in all ─ to the Smart & Safe committee, which wants recreational marijuana legalized through a Nov. 5 ballot measure. Curaleaf kicked in another $1 million.

As of Sept. 6, the cannabis company had contributed $87.77 million in cash and in-kind contributions to the Smart & Safe Florida committee since 2022, a state database shows.

Trulieve contributes another $10 million to the committee seeking to get recreational marijuana legalized in Florida. The company has now supplied more than $75 million of the $82 million raised.

The cannabis company's contribution was made to the Smart & Safe committee. Meantime, an opposition committee received $250,000 from Jacksonville petroleum distributor Aubrey Edge.

Ken Griffin, CEO of the firm Citadel, in an opinion piece in the Miami Herald, calls the proposed amendment “a terrible plan to create the nation’s most expansive and destructive marijuana laws.”

In all, Trulieve had contributed about $60.39 million to the committee as of July 19, according to a state Division of Elections database.

In November, Floridians will vote on allowing adults to use recreational marijuana. On "Florida Matters," we discuss how the proposed amendment could change life in the Sunshine State.

Some justices appeared skeptical of arguments that the court should reject a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow recreational use of marijuana by people 21 or older.

The proposed ballot summary, in part, says the measure would allow “adults 21 years or older to possess, purchase, or use marijuana products and marijuana accessories” for non-medical consumption.

Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office says a proposed constitutional amendment “misleads” voters in a way to benefit the state’s largest medical marijuana operator.