Medical Marijuana Initiative Won’t Need Hearing

With Attorney General Pam Bondi declining to launch a challenge, the Florida Supreme Court on Friday called off a hearing scheduled for next month on a proposed constitutional amendment that would legalize medical marijuana.

Justices still need to sign off on the wording of the ballot initiative before it could go to voters in November 2016.

But without opposition to the wording, backers of the amendment appear likely to clear a key hurdle in the initiative process.

Bondi fought a similar 2014 initiative at the…