Florida elections officials have taken early steps under pressure from activists to advance a proposed initiative to legalize recreational marijuana to next year's ballot, legal filings show. The procedural move comes after the campaign behind the issue,

State elections officials on Monday sent a proposed recreational marijuana constitutional amendment to Attorney General James Uthmeier’s office, effectively putting an end to a lawsuit that backers of the measure filed to try to trigger a Florida Supreme Court review of the proposal.

U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, is comfortably ahead in polls but there are signs the so-far sleepy race is sparking to life.

Weeks after a pro-marijuana group sued the DeSantis administration in the Florida Supreme Court for allegedly slow-walking the process to put an amendment on the ballot, Florida election officials announced that they have taken that step.

While we're still a year away from the state's gubernatorial election, many are wondering who could be our next governor. Will it be DeSantis again?