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Herald endorsement: Our recommendation on Florida’s constitutional Amendment 3 For more than half a century, America has been fighting a war on drugs that most people agree has failed. It focused too often on street arrests of young people of color who spent years in prison for small amounts of marijuana while violent cartels bringing in opioids, cocaine and fentanyl — among the most dangerous drugs — continued doing business. Now Floridians have a chance to help police direct their resources to where they will matter more — to combat killer drugs — and allow the legal use of marijuana products for adults 21 and older. This can be done with proper monitoring, just as the state oversees the sale of alcohol and tobacco products. Constitutional Amendment 3 proposes to expand Florida’s already legal use of medical marijuana (38 states allow it) to recreational use for adults.
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