Medical marijuana is back in the mix iin2016, and will likely pass if it makes it onto the ballot.
Florida Senator Jeff Brandes (R-Pinellas) has just sponsored a bill that would allow doctors to prescribe pot to those in real need of it, not the hoards of pot heads that look to legalize it to satisfy their recreational habits.If lawmakers want to dictate the terms of legal medical pot in Florida, they likely need to act quickly. Medical marijuana supporters, including well-known trial attorney John Morgan, are already working to get a legalization provision on the ballot for the 2016 presidential election cycle. During presidential years, turnout numbers are higher for Democrats, leaving many to believe a ballot measure would easily pass.
According to the Tampa Tribune, Brandes’ bill, would allow a licensed Florida physician to “prescribe medical marijuana to patients with a specific list of nine diseases including, cancer, HIV or AIDS, epilepsy, or ALS disease, which is commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease.”
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Medicinal marijuana in a non-euphoric form is widely supported in the medical community, but unfortunately the pro-pot lobby, which includes those pot heads I previously mentioned, want the more traditional and smoke able form of pot to be legalized.