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.

Monday’s move will set in motion Supreme Court review of the measure, an essential step to get on the 2026 ballot.

It came on the last day of a deadline set by justices for Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to respond to a lawsuit filed by the Smart & Safe Florida political committee, which accused elections officials of improperly holding up the ballot-initiative process.

Court documents filed Monday by attorneys for Secretary of State Cord Byrd included a letter from Byrd submitting the proposed constitut

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