Comments on: Florida Supreme Court Hears Medical Marijuana Ballot Initiative Debate

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:37:00 +0000

HEMP should be legalized for cultivation and use in Industrial applications.
MARIJUANA should be taken out of Schedule 4 status and treated like other (far more lethal and debilitating) products like tobacco and alchohol. Marijuana should be taxed like tobacco and regulated like alchohol, available to Adults over the counter at PUBLIX, WALGREENS and any oother retail establishment in the United States.

By: perdido fisherman

perdido fisherman — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 01:27:24 +0000

I feel your pain Alfred O., I too had a stroke that took a part of me and left the rest in pain. i make my comments here with a click on each letter with a mouse. alot of people would rather we take narcotics for pain instead of marijuana all because big pharma pays off the FDA to say so and even that is under attack by those same folks who drink alcohol and use tobacco because the goverment makes money on those poisons. vaporized marijuana is healthy, no side eefect from carcinogens like thier is smoking it. people have been brain washed by our propagandist goverment all in the name of money. the people who have no health problems and take pills have made it even harder for some sick people to get what they need because law enforcement threatens doctors, i have seen them do it with my own eyes..Best wishes alfred, i hope this passes for our sake and others like us.

By: jkmm

jkmm — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 19:57:31 +0000

I am for legalizing it! Used in situations where other meds have not proven to be effective it could greatly improve some people’s quality of life! Also it may just take some of the dealers down a peg or 2 and possible stop some of the associated crime… Dreaming here but maybe…..

By: leggrizer

leggrizer — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 16:28:01 +0000

DO NOT believe the Randolph Hearst propaganda that got marijuana banned in the USA first place . To think that it was all over rope .

By: citizen

citizen — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 04:03:21 +0000

I bet big pharma will fight this, they want patients to buy expensive pain killers instead

By: Alfred J. Ouellette

Alfred J. Ouellette — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 15:50:31 +0000

some people don’t like the one’s that need this to surive everyday paini lost half use of my body 3 years ago from a major brain attack. also known as a sever stroke. i use to weigh in at about 150 pounds since my stroke i have lost just around 35 pounds due to i lost the tase factor in my brain. so food seems boring to eat as it has no taste. but with haveing som marajauna it helps me consume food withs i gain a few pounds a month and maintain a better life quality. please pass this right that the lord put on this earth for our use just like the air we breath, water we drink its part of human surivel PLease help this passsssss.

By: Bob's Brother

Bob's Brother — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 14:54:25 +0000

The State of California is a prime example of why this is a bad idea. People are going to Docs known to give prescriptions and getting permission to buy pot from dispensories for depression, anxioty, or any ailment. The State of Florida should take close note of this before giving this the OK. On another note, if the people who so badly need pot to comfort them didn’t know this, they’re free to move to Colorada, California, or Washington State.

By: knowa

knowa — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 12:18:56 +0000

What really get me is that none of this would be necessary if it were not for the fraud of scheduling Cannabis in the first place. CNN On August 14, 1970, the Assistant Secretary of Health, Dr. Roger O. Egeberg wrote a letter recommending the plant, marijuana, be classified as a schedule 1 substance, and it has remained that way for nearly 45 years. My research started with a careful reading of that decades old letter. What I found was unsettling. Egeberg had carefully chosen his words:
“Since there is still a considerable void in our knowledge of the plant and effects of the active drug contained in it, our recommendation is that marijuana be retained within schedule 1 at least until the completion of certain studies now underway to resolve the issue.”
Not because of sound science, but because of its absence, marijuana was classified as a schedule 1 substance. Again, the year was 1970. Egeberg mentions studies that are underway, but many were never completed. As my investigation continued, however, I realized Egeberg did in fact have important research already available to him, some of it from more than 25 years earlier

By: Anastasia

Anastasia — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 11:10:20 +0000

I wish I could be as optimistic as attorney John Morgan is about the outcome of legalizing medical marijuana. But, what the heck, where do I sign?