Overview
- State elections officials on Nov. 17 submitted the recreational marijuana proposal to Attorney General James Uthmeier and verified required district thresholds, triggering Florida Supreme Court review.
- Uthmeier asked justices to dismiss Smart & Safe Florida’s mandamus petition as moot after the letters the group sought were issued.
- Smart & Safe Florida has 675,334 valid signatures, short of the 880,062 required by Feb. 1, 2026 to qualify for the ballot.
- A separate Leon County case challenges an October directive from Division of Elections Director Maria Matthews instructing supervisors to discard roughly 200,000 petitions lacking the full text in mailings.
- State lawyers say the secretary has authority to require uniform petition forms and display of full text, while the sponsors argue mailed packets complied by directing voters to a webpage with the full text.