When Floridians choose their next governor in 2014, they might also
decide whether to legalize medical marijuana. But the state attorney
general and legislative leaders don’t want the question to make it onto
ballots as it’s currently written.
Medical marijuana legalization
advocates and opponents are readying arguments they’ll make before the
state supreme court next month. The high court will rule on whether a
proposed constitutional amendment is misleading.
Court filings by
Attorney General Pam Bondi and legislative leaders Sen. Don Gaetz
(R-Niceville) and Rep. Will Weatherford (R-Wesley Chapel) say the text
hides the amendment’s true potential for enabling widespread marijuana
use. Anti-drug-abuse groups agree.
“You know, anybody would be
able to get this of any age—there’s not an age restriction on it—for any
condition that their physician wanted to give it to them for,” says Amy
Ronshausen, executive director of the Florida Coalition Alliance of
drug-free community groups.
She says her group doesn’t believe smoked marijuana is real medicine anyway.
“When
you get your prescription, you go to a pharmacy and you have it filled.
And on the bottle, it says when to take it, interactions with other
medications, it has warnings,” she says.
Ronshausen says with marijuana, a patient doesn’t know the strength of what they’re getting....(Continue Reading)
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