This document raises concerns about efforts to legalize marijuana for medical and recreational use. It argues that marijuana legalization is being driven more by business and political interests than concerns for patient health, as smoked marijuana has not gone through the FDA approval process required for other medicines. Legalizing medical marijuana could open the door to legalizing recreational use and lead to public health and financial costs for employers. It encourages sharing information to educate communities and prevent Florida from legalizing marijuana.

1. Since when has a medicine become legal through a vote and not by research, studies
and FDA approval. Why and who is trying to circumvent the FDA process? Isn’t this a
step backwards in science and medicine.
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3. None of these foundation, organization or associations support smoked pot as a
medicine. They are aware that some components of marijuana speciallically cbd has
some medicinal value and they promote studies and research to produce the best
possible medicine for ailing patients.
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4. Which of these looks like 21st century medicine, which has guidelines and has been
researched, studied, established quidelines and proven to beneficial in helping a patient
and often curing diseases.
Crude Drug- No Practice Guidelines FDA approved. Specific Guidelines for every
medication
last phase of the FDA approval process and Epidioloex has just been granted Orphan
drug status with the FDA meaning that physicians can use it in Investigative Drug Trials
for kids with sezuire disorders.
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5. Since the 70’s -It has always been the goal of pro-marijuana organizations to
legalize recreational pot this campaign was advancing too slowly so a new
marketing campaign was adapted…
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6. Repacking smoked pot as a medicine. Every state that has legalized pot as medicine has
then begun to legalize full recreational use.
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8. in 1996 ca legalized smoked pot as a medicine…
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9. For the past year you can read new articles daily from that state about the state
of turmoil co is in with medicinal and now full legalization.
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10. Tobacco companies have always wanted a piece of the action and now that cirgatee
smoking has been decline there is plenty of land available for marijuana crops.
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11. "For decades, the tobacco industry misled the public into believing that low-tar or light
cigarettes were safer for smokers,"
Now that people are finally realizing the health hazard it is to smoking cigarettes fewer
people are smoking and land is free to grow pot.
Why would it be harmful for the lungs to smoke cigarettes but not pot? Really… pot is
typically drawn deeper into the lungs and thus more harmful.
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12. "For decades, the tobacco industry misled the public into believing that low-tar or light
cigarettes were safer for smokers,"
Now that people are finally realizing the health hazard it is to smoking cigarettes fewer
people are smoking and land is free to grow pot.
Why would it be harmful for the lungs to smoke cigarettes but not pot? Really… pot is
typically drawn deeper into the lungs and thus more harmful.
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13. That takes us to today in Florida.
Although Pollara said. "Literally thousands of volunteers contributed their time,
collecting petitions in the rain and heat, on their weekends and holidays.'‘National Voter
Outreach, a Nevada-based company that specializes in organizing signature drives.
professional petition gatherers from $1 a signature to as much as $4, hiring people from
around the country to solicit signatures outside courthouses, restaurants, stores and
post offices. In addition they were paid an hourly rate of $25-$30.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/group-says-they-have-enough-signatures-to-
get-medical-marijuana-on-the/2161231
Does this really sound like someone who cares about a person’s health or…. Filling his
own pockets.?
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14. Sadly, this has become a political and financial issue. Ben Pollara, a Democratic
fundraiser and campaign manager for the United for Care group, stated “We want to be
able to have our stereotypical, lazy pothead voters to be able to vote from their couch
on Election Day.
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15. Financially just Follow the money from the cultivating classes to the grow sites, to the
pot shops to the law suits. Personal attorney lawyers will potentially make thousands if
not millions off the unsuspecting and innocent people in our state who believe smoked
pot is a medicine, many of whom may become addicted changing their lives and their
families forever.
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16. Will a drug free work place even exist in the future? What’s in it for a personal injury
attorney?
What if an employee high on medical marijuana get’s injured on-the-job? Do you have
to pay for his healthcare, what about disability, what if the high employee injures a
customer as well as himself? Sounds like lots of opportunities for lawyers and many,
many unbudgeted fees & expenses for employers… do you think customer will be willing
to pay a higher end price for products and services to cover these costs?
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17. employers' right to drug test is questioned. Coats was angry because Dish Network fired
him in 2010 after his random drug test came back positive for traces of pot.
He sued Dish Network, claiming the marijuana he uses is just like any other medicine
“If the Colorado Supreme Court were to rule in the employees’ favor proponents of
marijuana use will be making the case that employees should have protections for using
marijuana
“There’s a great deal of statistics out that drug use and alcohol, cost employers an
enormous amount of money, in the hundreds of millions of dollars a year. And that drug
testing, saves them money,” what will happen if drug testing is no longer an option?
“There’s a great deal of statistics out that drug use and alcohol, cost employers an
enormous amount of money, in the hundreds of millions of dollars a year. So, the
marketing message is that by drug testing, they can save money,” Graves said, adding
that employers are also concerned about potential liability costs if there is an accident
and an employee tests positive for pot use.
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18. In addition to the increase cost of insurance, absenteeism,, healthcare cost for
substance treatment there be a substantial added expense of lawyer fees. Will
businesses be able to afford these additional costs?
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19. Look at the ads that pop up when researching ‘medical’ marijuana.
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20. With the infrastructure in place from pill mills Florida is the perfect storm for being the
supplier of pot for the east coast.
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21. With the infrastructure from the Pill Mills still in place ...
The next pot state and first one on the east coast. Even if you don’t live in Florida you
should help prevent it from becoming legal…
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22. Now you can see why florida has been targeted and what states will be next. This has
been the strategy for years
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24. If this were really about medicine and caring about the sick… if so why aren’t these so
called philanthropic organizations encouraging patients to participate in clinical trials
that exist throughout our nation to provide a safe and researched medicine with
standards of care.
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25. Because it isn’t about healthcare it is about personal injury attorneys and entrepreneurs
preying on innocent people, promoting pot as a miracle drug, and standing to make
billions of dollars off this industry in a variety of ways. Who are you going to believe?
Is this a scam or healthcare?
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26. Send this information to your family, friends, co-workers, boss, church members. We
need to educate our communities. Our nations future depends on all of us. Don’t be
silent… don’t let fl become another co, wa or ca. Don’t be doped.
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