Fact-checking a claim about 'kid-friendly pot' and Amendment 2 in Florida
Opponents of Florida’s medical marijuana amendment are warning that cannabis-enhanced edibles will endanger children, hoping that voters will eat up their dire predictions and reject the measure.
"Amendment 2 will bring kid-friendly pot candy to Florida," the anti-drug campaign Vote No On 2 said in a flier we received in the mail Sept. 22, 2016.
The campaign is run by the Drug Free Florida Committee, an anti-drug group started in 2014 by longtime GOP fundraiser Mel Sembler and his wife, Betty, with financial backing from casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.
We wanted to find out whether the medical marijuana amendment allows "pot candy," and whether it really would be "kid-friendly."
Keep reading Joshua Gillin's fact-check from PolitiFact Florida.