Its high time Florida became a Medical Cannabis state.

I am in pain after getting hit by a 18 wheeler .The medicine I was offered causes not just one but many health problems and it killed of a entire species of birds in India .

I could use a joint Id sell everything I have travel a milion miles to just be left alone and live in peace .

i am voting yes definitely bring it

It’s about time. Hopefully the ignorant will finally learn to listen and realize it’s not a bad drug!!

I would love to see become a reality I take pain medications for severe degenerative disc back pain & joint problems & there’s days that it just makes me sicker feeling!! or doesn’t seem to be working from taking it so long! I am totaly for it I am disabled & living a qiute peaceful life and that all I want is to rest for the remainder of time! please vote for it! goverment has made a farce out of it, it not near what there propaganda claims

I have MS marijuana makes it eiaser to walk eat live for me. I dont break the law but would love to live my life without all the side effects. There is no cure for MS just a handful of drugs with terrible side effects no which make my condition bette. They slow it down thats not living thats prolonging.

Florida has the some of the most severe laws against marijuana; People are serving long prison sentences for simple possession. We need to spend our tax dollars on more important issues such as our children’s education! Please everyone vote based on the Truth, not propaganda. The truth is that marijuana can help very sick people feel better. This fact is now acknowledged by the Government and the most prominent medical associations in America.

I am a veteran of OIF and have severe Ptsd. I can only pray that it becomes legal in florida, because the prescription drugs the VA gave me make sick and don’t work. I’m voting Yes and i Hope everyone else does as well, even if you don’t agree with legalizing it i ask you to vote yes as well, becuase it isn’t just about legalizing a medicinal plant, it’s also about not letting the government control our freedom to do what we want. What is freedom if your government tells you what you can do?

This has been a long time coming.

We came real close this past month in Washington State of having marijuana dispensaries however the federal government led by Obama, contiues to place pressure on the states. The feds make threats saying they intend on arresting and charging state workers that may be linked to this process. They are going state-by-state busting clinics and dispensaries. Medical marijuana is legal here, however you cant get it in a legal manner, and it only allows you to grow marijuana. They can still bust you, and the medical card is only a defense with regard to your arrest. The Governor signed a veto after being strong-armed by the Obama administration to keep it illegal. Florida will end in the same result until which time the federal government agrees to a legal path. We had people standing by to open full-time stores with several strains of marijuana behind the counter. The state was ready to hire growers and collect hundreds of millions of tax dollars.

it would be better for florida to ban oxycodone & other “highly” addictive pain killer pills here lol, then they would be able 2 legalize medicinal cannabis for people in need of natural medicine

This bill is Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration Saturday, May 07, 2011 12:01 AM. It didnt take long to shoot this bill down.

ok guys if you want this to pass please go to pufmm.org and print out the form to mail in please sign it and send a donation as well although they have won the battle this time we will win this war!

yo sufro todas las 24 horas 7 a la semana ninguna de las medicinas que los doctores me recetan sirven y ademas son fuertes y adiptivas ,pero la mariguana medicinal me deja vivir sin dolor alguno ademas es barata no como los medicamentos .yo apoyo la legalizacion pues como yo se que hay muchas personas que necesitan canabis como medicina pues es lo unico que les sirve ,todos los que estamos emfermos y con dolor que es lo peor necesitamos que legalizen la medicina llamada marihuana pues es mas efectiva y menos peligrosas que los quimicos de las farmacias .Apoyemos la legalizacion del canabis para los que estamos enfermos
GRACIAS

Why Marijuana is Illegal
By: Mike Mann
Cannabis was made federally illegal in the U.S. in 1937with the passage of the Marihuana Tax Act, although, Cannabis was the basis for almost every patent medicine prior to the discovery of aspirin. Critics say legalizing marijuana will lead to further drug abuse and the possible legalization of harsher drugs, medical marijuana should be available as an alternative to prescription pain killers. The AMA policy on marijuana stated: “The AMA opposes legalization of the sale and possession of marijuana, and recommends that it be prohibited for public use and also supports the modification of state laws to reduce the severity of penal-ties for possession of marijuana. The AMA recommends that personal possession of insignificant amounts be considered a mis-demeanor and advocates increased research into the effects of marijuana.” (American Medical Association,1989). Those who oppose the move say well what about the kids, they will have easier access to the drug. This what The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) noted in its Aug. 24, 2004 website article titled “Marijuana and Teens: Fact Sheet”:
“Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug among America’s youth. Among kids who use drugs, approximately 60 percent use marijuana only. Of the 14.6 million past month marijuana users in 2002, about one third, or 4.8 million persons, used it on 20 or more days in the past month. Between 1991 and 2001, the percentage of 8th graders who used marijuana doubled from one in ten to one in five. From 2001 to 2003, current marijuana use declined 11 percent. This is the first decline in youth drug use of such a magnitude in more than a decade. Kids are using marijuana at an earlier age. In the late 1960s fewer than half of those using marijuana for the first time were under 18. By 2001, about two-thirds (67 percent) of marijuana users were younger than 18.” (Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Aug. 24, 2004)
Making marijuana legal, taxing and controlling it, and regulating it would keep it away from kids and give the government more control over the drug (Nadelmann, E., 2002). Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger said in 2009 “it’s time for a debate on legalizing marijuana”. Joycelyn Elders, MD, former US Surgeon General, wrote in a Mar. 26, 2004 editorial pub-lished in The Providence Journal: “That fear [that medical marijuana laws will increase teen use of marijuana], raised in 1996, when California passed the first effective medical-marijuana law, has not come true. According to the official California Stu-dent Survey of marijuana use in California rose steadily from 1990 to 1996, but began falling immediately after the medical-marijuana law was passed. Among ninth graders, marijuana use in the last six months fell by more than 40 percent from 1995-96 to 2001-02 (the most recent available figures).” (Elders, J. MD, Mar. 26, 2004). use. Federal Law claims that marijuana is a drug with of no medicinal value, but for many patients in the 14 states where marijuana is de- criminalized marijuana is the drug of choice for cancer, and aids patients. Patients claim marijuana can heal a variation of ailments with no side effects, ver-sus the liver toxic chemicals prescribed by the physicians who work for the pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Michael J. Morris M.D. stated “letting people get in touch with earth’s, and nature’s miracles is the greatest reward of all”. President Obama said in April of 2008 “Medical marijuana in the same way with the same controls as other drugs prescribed by doctors is entirely appropriate.
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Why is marijuana illegal? Because the so-called bureaucrats that claim this a free country also say that You, me, and whoever else thinks that they are a free American can’t have in our possession, utilize, or grow marijuana. Why? Doesn’t it grow from a seed, like all other god-given fruits and vegetables.
Why? Because they can’t patent Marijuana like all the other man-made pharmaceuticals.
Why? Because most city and state governments don’t know how to tax marijuana.
Why? Because if they did, maybe we would all experience our true freedom, to do responsibly as we choose..

I hope to god this gets passed, I have a broken spine from when I gave birth, smoking is the only thing so far that has helped me with the pain, I rather smoke then pop pills like candy everyday. But also now that the new law passed where if u have drugs in your system everyone on your insurance gets canceled for a year, I hvent smoked in 3 months I’m in serious pain and there’s nothing I can do, I don’t want to loose insurance for my son

Just tell me where to research the guidelines so I can get a lisence to grow it

Gotta love how no one would shut the hell up and listen. It’s like “yeah, I guess we HAVE to let little Ricky our developmentally disabled cousin speak…” Complete ignorance.

So this was not passed. Does anyone know when another House Joint Resolution or Bill will try and get passed?

Why the dishonesty? Medical marijuana, ..loling all the way to the dorites..its a miracle..i can walk..ty jerry garcia.

medical my blood shot eye..call it what it should be..

LIBERTY

PEOPLE PLEASE TAKE TIME TO READ THIS.

I want to start by saying I don’t smoke marijuana. I also want to make it clear from the start I am a very strong supporter of medical marijuana in Florida.

I think it’s time the people tell the government their tired of them making decisions for them. All the drugs out their and they make marijuana out to be one of the worst, and they preach this to our people and our kids. What they fail to explain and tell us is marijuana never killed anyone. Have you ever heard of anyone dying from smoking pot. If you compare marijuana too alcohol, meth, heroin, cocaine, even prescription pain killers it’s a fairly harmless drug.

If the people in the US don’t stand against these politicians and government officials things like this will continue. The sad part is half the one who lobby against this do it themselves.