Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis once held a press conference with one of the leading medical marijuana advocates in the state to announce that Florida would stop trying to block access to the drug in smokable form.
But on Thursday during a campaign stop in South Carolina, the governor took a tougher approach to the issue, saying he opposes decriminalizing marijuana nationally. DeSantis even described medical marijuana as “very controversial” despite siding with supporters of Florida’s program in the dispute over allowing patients to smoke the drug.
