[RedneckRebel]

Originally Posted by jburress

This is the list of conditions that would qualify:

• cancer
• epilepsy
• glaucoma
• HIV
• AIDS
• post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
• Crohn's disease
• Parkinson's disease
• multiple sclerosis

It's up to the doctors and politicians to make sure that only those who qualify are able to access it.

Comparing cannabis to opium is like comparing apples to oranges. If there are doctors who unlawfully supply to patients, then it's up to the legal system to prosecute them. Denying people (some with conditions that will kill them) relief because of the possibility of someone illegally obtaining cannabis is immoral in my opinion.

So misleading.
You leave off one of the most important sentences in the "list of conditions that qualify":

"...or other debilitating medical conditions of the same kind or class as or comparable to those enumerated, and for which a physician believes that the medical use of marijuana would likely outweigh the potential health risks for a patient. "

This leaves the door WIDE OPEN for abuse, and if this amendment gets passed into our constitution, we will never be able to fix it. At least if it goes through the Legislature, and errors that happen, can be fixed at a later time.

http://dos.elections.myflorida.com/i...df/50438-3.pdf

[aridon]

So you're worried doctors might prescribe weed over say the numerous other pain killers they have access to and actually can lead to stronger harder drugs?

Quite frankly weed is the lesser of the evils, might help some people and even if it gets abused probably isn't nearly as bad as the abuse going on with current drugs already available. Seems win win to me.

Compared to alcohol, Oxy or the numbers other drugs weed is pretty harmless. There is also no reason what so ever for it to be illegal. Except of course to line the pockets of police departments and corporations running jails.

[jburress]

Originally Posted by aridon

So you're worried doctors might prescribe weed over say the numerous other pain killers they have access to and actually can lead to stronger harder drugs?

Quite frankly weed is the lesser of the evils, might help some people and even if it gets abused probably isn't nearly as bad as the abuse going on with current drugs already available. Seems win win to me.

Compared to alcohol, Oxy or the numbers other drugs weed is pretty harmless. There is also no reason what so ever for it to be illegal. Except of course to line the pockets of police departments and corporations running jails.

Thanks for saving me some time.

[UrbanCrossroads]

Against. Let's be real, many people who claim they support this for the "medical" aspect are simply full of it. There ought to be more studies done on people who have caused car accidents while having THC in their system.

[chopchop0]

Originally Posted by UrbanCrossroads

Against. Let's be real, many people who claim they support this for the "medical" aspect are simply full of it. There ought to be more studies done on people who have caused car accidents while having THC in their system.

You mean like all those people who use alcohol and wreck their cars, you know, a legal drug?

Let's hope you never get cancer and need pain relief or an appetite stimulant

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by chopchop0

You mean like all those people who use alcohol and wreck their cars, you know, a legal drug?

So adding to the problem is a good idea???

[chopchop0]

Originally Posted by expatCA

So adding to the problem is a good idea???

I'd rather have a marijuana problem than a prescription opiate problem people are dying every from ODing on narcotics. As for alcohol, it's not clear that marijuana is any worse than it

[RedneckRebel]

The red herrings in this thread are amazing. This amendment has nothing to do with alcohol, or opiods. That fact that the supporters have to keep bringing them up, proves their arugments are hollow, and purely emotional. This amendment needs to fail, just like it did in 2014.

[Trigger-f]

Originally Posted by chopchop0

I'd rather have a marijuana problem than a prescription opiate problem people are dying every from ODing on narcotics. As for alcohol, it's not clear that marijuana is any worse than it

I knew someone who died at 53 in 2001(heart attack). Smoked 2 ounces of pot in 2-3 days. He was on disability and collected $2500 from the Canadian/American governments. He lost his house because he wasted his $ on pot and eating out all the time. Very often he stared at the ceiling and did nothing but watching stupid tv shows all day long.

I also know this other guy who says pot is a gateway drug (at least for him). Pretty much he ruined his life graduating from that to harder drugs. Neither prescription drugs nor pot are good. It may be helpful to people with terminal illnesses but people are interested in making $ selling it (I hear Denver/Seattle are becoming filthier from all the low-lives who moved there once pot became legal).

[chopchop0]

Originally Posted by RedneckRebel

The red herrings in this thread are amazing. This amendment has nothing to do with alcohol, or opiods. That fact that the supporters have to keep bringing them up, proves their arugments are hollow, and purely emotional. This amendment needs to fail, just like it did in 2014.

Sure it does, you're railing against legalizing something when we have far worse legal already.