Explaining his opposition to legal marijuana a couple of years ago, Sen. Marco Rubio (R–Fla.) warned that black-market weed is "laced with fentanyl." When former President Donald Trump invoked "fentanyl laced marijuana" on Saturday, his logic made a lot more sense: He cited that hazard as a reason to support Amendment 3, a Florida ballot initiative that would legalize recreational marijuana in that state. But both arguments suffered from the same flaw: As far as we can tell, "fentanyl laced marijuana" is an imaginary threat.
Since it is a constitutional amendment, Florida's marijuana initiative would require support from 60 percent of voters to take effect. In two of three polls conducted this month, support fell shy of that threshold. The third poll put support at 63 percent, but the margin of error was plus or minus 4.6 percentage points. In a Truth Social post that implicitly endorsed Amendment 3, Trump nevertheless took it for granted that voters will approve the initiative in November, and he offered a few reasons to welcome that outcome.
