Medical Marijuana Resolution Filed in Florida House to Let Voters Decide the Need for Weed

• i was dx with Multiple sclerosis and use cannibus for pain management, instead on getting hooked on synthetic heroin, is just a plant for christ sakes..

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• i had to move from florida to california just to get this herbal remedy for a dibilitating g.i. disorder...florida is long past due for a medical marijuana law/provision...it would be nice to have safe access to meds in florida when i travel home without fear of arrest!

• all i have tooo say is fk the feds get over it.

• if this makes the ballot like many are hoping for, hopefully the florida voters don't buckle under federal government's pressure to keep things the way they are like the california voters did

• Remember the Mexican cartel leader thanking the US government for the war on drugs? That he wouldn't be filthy rich without it? Our government has evolved into nothing more than a financially inept joke. Soon it will be just like the movie 'Idiocracy', we are well on our way.

• Too bad anyone that can make a difference is too ignorant and narrow minded to do so.

• the only reason they dont legalize it everywhere is b/c then we could grow our own and then the government wouldnt make the money. i say it should be legalized b/c if alcohol and tobacco are then it should. many people die from alcohol and tobacco...how many have died from weed???

• Bong hits for Jesus!

• Guarantee this will never happen as much as i would love it to!

• But florida has a big business of jailing people, this would take away from their profits

• Looks like Florida really is just cool like that. Wow. anon-toolz.se.tc

• Joint Resolution.  Hehe.

• This proposal sucks! It's time we legalize marijuana for all adults and regulate it like beer and tobacco, including the right to grow your own (just like you can make your own beer and grow your own tobacco), buy marijuana anywhere you can now buy beer or tobacco, keep all your Constitutional rights and put an end to employers or anyone else dictating what FREE adults can do on their own time as long as they don't harm others!

• The illegal drug trade is now estimated to be somewhere in the region of $400 billion a year ( equal to the defense budget ). This "former land of the free" arrests 1.5 million of it's citizens a year for drug law violations, half for marijuana alone, The majority of the 2.2 million inmates in the USA are incarcerated because of this insane drug war (Prohibition 2) at a staggering cost to all taxpayers and trauma to their families. Prisons have been filled to capacity. Violent criminals, murderers, rapists and child molesters are released early to create space for these so called drug offenders. Half of court trial time and also a huge chunk of police officers time is pointlessly wasted. Enormous untaxed profits from illegal drugs fund multi-national criminal empires which bribe law enforcement authorities and spread corruption faster than a raging bush fire. These laws take violent criminals and turn them into multi-billionaires whilst corrupting even entire countries such as Columbia, Panama, Mexico and Afghanistan. The extreme violence on and south of the border is drug gangs fighting for turf in this lucrative business. The drug laws are also funding the Taliban whose illegal opium profits allow it to buy weapons and pay it's fighters more than $300 a month, compared with the $14 paid to an Afghan policemen.  When governments prohibit drugs they effectively and knowingly hand a monopoly on their sale to dangerous criminals and terrorists. Without a legal framework in which to operate, these black-market entities can always be expected to settle their disputes violently, while terrorizing many peaceful and innocent citizens in the process. Were the users of alcohol to blame for the St Valentines massacre in the US in 1929? Of course not! It is just as naive to assume that one can compel all the users of Marijuana or Cocaine to simply quit, as it is to assume that all the users of Alcohol should have stopped drinking after the introduction of alcohol prohibition in 1919. The definition of insanity is great folly, madness, extreme senselessness, lunacy. Prohibition can be described as being all of the above and may therefor, along with all it's supporters, be deemed insane. Each day you remain silent, you help to destroy the Constitution, fill the prisons with our children, and empower terrorists and criminals worldwide while wasting hundreds of billions of your own tax dollars. Prohibition bears many strong and startling similarities to Torquemada­’s inquisition­, it’s supporters are servants of tyranny and hate who’s sole purpose is to make the rest of us suffer their putrid legacy of incalculable waste and destruction. Protect our Children; Legalize, Regulate & Tax!

• We have a right to expect that our laws are based on logic, and we have a right to expect that our laws create more good than harm. The federal marijuana prohibition fails on both these counts. Eight hundred and fifty thousand people are arrested every year for possessing marijuana, meanwhile, six thousand people a day start using marijuana for the first time. The prohibition does *not* prevent people from buying, selling and using marijuana. It was sheer madness of President Nixon to create a massive illegal market for marijuana and then to try to contain the violence and smuggling that it created. A far saner plan would've been to prevent the illegal market from forming in the first place by allowing supermarkets to sell legally-grown marijuana to adults at prices low enough to prevent illegal competition (i.e. the same policy we use for beer and wine). We parents do NOT need to support the failed policies of President Nixon! He is long gone now and our responsibility is to the safety of our children. Our only options in this case are either to have drug dealers selling marijuana to kids, or to have supermarkets selling marijuana to adults. As a parent, I choose the latter.

• The federal prohibition of marijuana will soon end and cannabis / hemp / marijuana will be left up to each state government.  It will be up to the states very shortly as to whether or not it will be legal for recreational use.  In my opinion it's nearly harmless and should be available for all responsible adults in the same manner of alcohol. Weigh in: Here: http://pvox.co/CdiFqY Here: wh.gov/gDQ 

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