Naturally, Florida’s minority prohibitionists are throwing their support behind the Rodrigues bill. Another point of contention in the House proposal would require health officials to grant medical marijuana licenses to applicants, which is dragging on at a snail’s pace in any case. Floridians have not had it easy in their effort to get what 71 percent of them voted for last November—medical marijuana. At this point, 150,000 patients have registered and new applicants will only be allowed once there are 200,000 patients. Pollara pointed out that Rodriques’s bill “was written for the less than 29 percent who voted ‘no’ rather than the over 71 percent who voted ‘yes'” on legalization.
Floridians have not had it easy in their effort to get what 71 percent of them voted for last November—medical marijuana.
Patients and advocates are frustrated as they struggle with prohibitionists who continue in their attempts to gut the most important elements of a hard fought battle for legal medical weed.
A House panel voted this week 14-to-1 for an MMJ proposal that is being viewed by supporters of legal medical weed as far too restrictive.
“This bill gets the policy wrong,” said Ben Pollara, executive director of Florida for Care.
Introduced by Republican majority leader Ray Rodrigues, the proposal starts off by requiring...
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