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Lawmakers look at the next steps for medical marijuana
12/13/2016

"If we don't aggressively seek to limit the use and sale of marijuana, our country and state as we know it will never be the same. Florida will be trading our beautiful white, sandy beaches filled with vacationing families for a hazy, skunk-smelling coastline laden with unemployable, unmotivated homeless people," said Teresa Miller, a drug prevention activist and founder of the "no2pot.org" website.

 

 


Amendment 2, Senate, Florida, 2016, miller
Treat medical marijuana “like medicine,” advocates say
12/13/2016

Ellen Snelling, chairwoman of the Tampa Alcohol Coalition and member of the Hillsborough County Anti-Drug Alliance, added that marijuana isn’t harmless, telling the panel of her teenage daughter’s decline into drug use after trying pot.


Senate, 2016, Snelling, Amendment 2
2016 12-13 FL Senate Health Policy Committee Workshop- Recommendations Article
12/12/2016

Is it possible to regulate a plant that people can grow in their backyards? Questions to consider and recommendations for implementing Amendment 2 (legalizing 'medical' marijuana in Florida).
Written document


Amendment 2, Senate, video
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