Florida is using opioid settlement money on an anti-marijuana ad campaign

TALLAHASSEE — Florida is using millions of dollars in settlement money from opioid manufacturers and distributors on an ad campaign against marijuana, according to state records.

The state Department of Children and Families last month spent $4 million to pay a marketing agency for an “advertising campaign aimed at educating Floridian families and youth about the dangers of marijuana, opioid, and drug use.”

The department did not respond to questions about what that campaign includes. But in recent weeks it has released two ads warning about the dangers of marijuana use among teenagers. The ads link marijuana use to schizophrenia and other mental illnesses.

One advertisement says that marijuana now is “engineered by corporations all for one purpose: to rewire the human mind.”



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