A Florida campaign says it’s collected more than one million signatures to put a marijuana legalization initiative on the state’s 2026 ballot—and so it’s voluntarily declining to appeal a legal case in which a judge recently allowed state officials to invalidate about 200,000 petitions over a largely procedural issue.
In a notice sent to Florida’s Second Judicial Circuit on Tuesday, Smart & Safe Florida advised that it would not be pursuing an appeal of the judgement, which held that formatting changes made to the cannabis petition rendered approximately 200,000 signatures illegitimate.
While that decision means a significant chunk of the total signatures they’d amassed won’t count, the campaign said in a statement shared with Marijuana Moment on Tuesday that they still have plenty of buffer to qualify for ballot placement, so they won’t be challenging the court’s decision.
“The Smart & Safe campaign will not appeal the recent court ruling to invalidate over 200,000 verified petitions as we are confident in the ability to submit enough petitions to make ballot position so long as the state does its job in good faith to process the submitted petitions and accurately report the verification totals,” it said. “To date, excluding the mail-in
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