Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a bill that made the Sunshine State the second to ban fluoride from its drinking water systems.
The Republican governor signed the measure at an event in Dade City after state lawmakers approved the bill in April, requiring that the mineral and other additives be removed from public drinking water systems statewide. The law will go into effect on July 1.
At a Thursday event where he signed the bill, DeSantis said that using fluoride for your teeth is “fine” but “forcing it into the water supply is basically forced medication on people.”
Fluoride is “readily available now, so that led to this being put” in the bill to say that local governments “cannot engage in this fluoride forced medication,” the governor added….