First lady Casey DeSantis continues his media tour against Florida Personal use of marijuana by adults constitutional amendment, and Tuesday’s iteration required her to address inaction by the Florida Legislature that could have prevented it.

Radio presenter Bob Rose said the issue “should never have come up for a vote,” before assigning blame to the supermajority Republican House and Senate, which knew Amendment 3 was a possibility but failed to does a lot to anticipate it with a legislative framework.

“Shouldn’t the legislature have somehow avoided this at the pass?” If they had taken care of it and said, “Look, you can grow your own at home in small batches. You can’t smoke it in public,” they could have put it all together. But I think they lack courage and conviction in this area,” Rose posited.

DeSantis did not anticipate the curveball question, one of the few she or the governor had asked. Ron DeSantis that I encountered did not just throw up topics for discussion.

“Well, and so you, you say, you know, the liberty argument and it’s a fair argument. And again, this constitutional amendment does not allow people to cultivate that in their homes,” the former news anchor and talk show host said. She then relied on more familiar arguments against the amendment rather than the Florida Legislature, including denouncing “corporate greed” and suggesting that “people would come” to Florida to consume legal weed .

“They’re probably not even from the state of Florida,” she said, referring to hypothetical tourists blowing clouds onto the beach near the Sunshine State’s children.

The Governor and First Lady talked a lot about how Amendment 3 doesn’t allow home cultivation, but very little about what the Legislature could have done to prevent the pot push.

THE Florida House considered THC caps last legislative session, seeking to blunt the product’s potency in case it is legalized for general non-medical use. Governor DeSantis has never supported caps, but has complained for years about the “stench” of marijuana.

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