TAMPA, Fla. — Two controversial issues are getting closer to securing a spot on the 2024 ballot.

A bill that would have made it harder to pass constitutional amendments failed in the state legislature, which means the threshold for a ballot referendum to pass remains at 60%.

What You Need To Know

• A bill that would have made it harder to pass constitutional amendments failed in the state legislature


• In order to get on the 2024 ballot, the measure must receive nearly 900,000 valid signatures


• Pro-legalization committee Smart and Safe Florida hopes to legalize recreational marijuana similar to the laws passed in California and Colorado

In order to get on the 2024 ballot, the measure must receive nearly 900,000 valid signatures and then get the state Supreme Court to sign off on the ballot language.

Notable issues like raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and legalizing recreational marijuana became law because Floridians voted in favor of making them constitutional amendments.

After failed attempts, the pro-legalization committee Smart and Safe Florida is less than 100,000 signatures away from hitting that 891,523 signature threshold. The group hopes to legalize recreational marijuana similar to the laws passed in California and Colorado.

Will recreational marijuana make it on the 2024 ballot?

‘Smart and Safe Florida’ is just more than 100K signatures shy of the threshold to make it on the ballot. They have until Feb 1 to get there. Then if the ballot language is...

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