Posted on 01/14/2015 4:14:49 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
A former Republican lieutenant governor of Florida is joining attorney John Morgan's push to legalize medical marijuana statewide.
Jeff Kottkamp, who served in Gov. Charlie Crist's administration, signed paperwork to lobby for a Morgan-backed bill, called the Florida for Care bill, which would expand – not overwrite – the existing "Charlotte's Web" law.
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We already HAVE medical marijuana in Florida....this is a pathetic attempt to get kids to go to the ballot and vote for Hitlery.
And there are LIEbertarians in FL SCREAMING that they can’t use their EBT cards to buy dope, like they do in Colorado.
You’re exactly right: it’s free $hit for the low-info’s to vote Leftist.
2014 was a litmus test for using progressive populist causes like marijuana to get progressive candidates into office. They very nearly succeeded in Florida. Rick Scott only won by a few percentage points. It was a nailbiter for sure, and when the presidential elections come around, more of the mindless masses show up to the polls to vote in the nation’s biggest popularity contest.
Hillary might just carry Florida if marijuana is on the ballot again. I’m mighty fed up with the likes of John Morgan as well. They keep wanting to push this as a state constitutional amendment vs. going through the legislature. Amendments are NOT to be trifled with, and this garbage trying to get marijuana on the ballot as an amendment is disturbing. It’s a legislative issue, not a constitutional one.
....the Constitution isn’t respected anyway. We just had a SINGLE judge spit on the Constitution and force the state to perform faux marriages.
Not only was the FLORIDA CONSTITUTION ignored, but the 1st, 10th, and 14th amendments of the US CONSTITUTION were ignored.
The very existence of Marijuana Prohibition ignores the Constitution, so it all balances out.
The highest support was with younger voters, who usually have low turnout rates in off year elections. It is highly likely to pass in 2016
This is the difference between us and them. When we lose we accept it. When they lose they come back again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again until they get what they want. When our approach to obtaining our goals becomes the same as their approach to obtaining their goals, we will succeed, and not before.
nope. a society isn’t prohibited from making rules of behaviour for its citizenry.
Morgan is a fat alcoholic opportunist with a considerable high opinion of his own greatness, all couched around his “law” practice. His “practice” is a consolidator of tort cases, personal injury, etc. They NEVER go to court, just consolidate and threaten businesses, companies for the shakedown and a percentage to the “victim”. His M.O.
During the FL elections recently it was shameless tear filled fake a@@ “oh my poor brother, and all the many suffering people who cannot get help for their pain” BS. None of which was true.
Always look to the source of the money here. The large outfits, like RJ Reynolds (about which see “Dick Reynolds- head of the DNC finance up until just before his death, using Big Tobacco money” for reference).
One can get THC in pill form perfectly legally by prescription. One cannot get “domestically grown” high potency marijuana which has other components sought by dopers, by prescription. What is more— the “medical marijuana” is proposed and sold as something to SMOKE— to take into one’s lungs. There are identified over 100 carcinogens in pot smoke-— much worse than those in processed tobacco. Personally, I think Big Tobacco will/would move in and push out small growers/makers and have a new killer addictive agent to market-— ALL great for the TAX benefits to the big government liberals, dems, RINOs and all other dopers. And they get to bypass FDA drug studies for efficacy and safety in one swoop. Nice cash if you can get it— and you might with fat a@@es like Morgan, and pole smokers like Crist and his minions. Crist was a mentee of JEB Bush recall. Makes it hard to understand how GD dumb the Bushes really are— or how callous.
Keeping the idiots high and stupid keeps the politicians powerful and rich.
No you don't:
"Relatively few people will be able to use marijuana under the law, which specifically excludes smoking pot. It legalizes only an extraction of the marijuana plant, a cannabis oil that is then taken orally. [...] The law legalizes only a specific strain called Charlotte's Web, which is high in cannabidiol (CBD), a substance that may help alleviate seizures." - http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-06-21/news/fl-charlottes-web-qa-20140619_1_cannabis-oil-charlotte-figi-medical-use
The first sentence indicates we indeed do.
I understand. It isn’t the marijuana some would like.
Then what was the 18th Amendment all about? Why bother with amending the Constitution so you can prohibit alcohol?
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