DeSantis and the hemp industry were working together against the Amendment that failed in Florida. DeSantis had previously vetoed a bill that would ban hemp products (like delta 8 ) and in return the hemp lobby gave the Republicans $5 million dollars.
But in June, when DeSantis was presented with a bill that would have imposed a similar hemp ban, he vetoed it. In the following weeks, CBS reported on text messages that showed hemp executives—whose lobbyists also have deep ties to Florida Republicans—rallying around DeSantis and pledging $5 million to the Florida Republican Party. Those messages showed that in turn, the state GOP would use that money to fight Amendment 3. “We know nothing in life is free and neither was this veto,” said an introductory post in a WhatsApp message group called Save Florida Hemp.
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