The Best of Reason: Big Pot vs. Big Government in Florida
Mom-and-pop marijuana operations do not exist in Florida. That's by design.

This week's featured article is "Big Pot vs. Big Government in Florida" by C.J. Ciaramella. This article originally appeared in print under the headline "Big Pot vs. Big Government."
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Tallahassee was able to weed them out.
They don't call it the pothandle for nothing.
They put a lid on it.
This story is becoming the Priscilla Villareal of pot legalization stories.
Perhaps Nick can do a four-part podcast on it. Mix in some “JD Vance is wrong about marijuana in FL”.
None of the Reason staff would let their kids play within a mile of those potheads.Nice, though, for your self-congratulatory dose to defend them. As I see it the medical establishment says it is very harmful
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