I’m with Gov. Ron DeSantis in his newfound quest to make Florida less smelly.
Florida is an awfully smelly place. The best description I’ve heard about being outdoors in Florida during the summer is that it’s like living inside of somebody’s mouth: It’s way too moist, and there’s something decaying in the area but you’re not quite sure where it is.
So anything to make Florida smell less like one big outdoor compost heap is worth a try.
For millions of Floridians who live near the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie rivers and their estuaries, we are now entering the toxic blue-green algae blooming season.
It’s the time of year when hot water temperatures and nutrient contamination from agricultural land, fertilizer runoff and leaky septic tanks produce a noxious slime that kills sea life and emits an ammonia odor that sickens some people and drives others indoors.
But that’s not the only smell that DeSantis is sounding the alarm about.
Lately, he’s been railing about smelly marijuana. Or to put it another way, he’s pivoting from “anti-woke” to “anti-smoke.”
I sympathize with DeSantis. He’s finding himself out of step with Floridians on a couple of key issues coming up in voter referendums this year.
He signed into law a six-week abortion ban, which is about to go into effect next month with a majority of Florida voters against it, according to polling.
Most Florida voters don’t want a six-week abortion ban, but they do want recreational marijuana,…
