Trulieve adds $5M to recreational marijuana campaign in Florida

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The medical cannabis company Trulieve has contributed another $5 million to a campaign to allow recreational marijuana in Florida, according to a newly filed finance report. 

The company made the contribution on July 15 to the Smart & Safe Florida political committee, which is leading efforts to pass a recreational marijuana initiative on the November ballot. 

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According to a state Division of Elections database, Trulieve had contributed about $60.39 million to the committee as of July 19. 

The committee raised a total of $66.475 million in cash and nearly $129,000 in in-kind contributions, and it spent $53.963 million. 

The initiative, which will appear on the ballot as Amendment 3, says, in part, that it would allow "adults 21 years or older to possess, purchase, or use marijuana products and marijuana accessories for nonmedical personal consumption by smoking, ingestion, or otherwise." 

Voters in 2016 passed a constitutional amendment that allowed medical marijuana.