Joe Henderson
Here’s a safe bet. Lawmakers are already plotting to overturn a proposed amendment in 2020 to legalize recreational marijuana. These guys don’t take chances because Tallahassee hates it when voters think for themselves.
Remember when the people restored voting rights for felons who had done their time? Republicans decided to “clarify” the issue, and now few ex-felons can go to the polls.
Or when 75 percent of voters directed lawmakers to increase spending on land and water conservation. I believe the Republican response on that one was, “Pshaw.”
And we can’t forget the hissy fit they had about smoking voter-approved medical marijuana. Oh, my heavens! Gov. Ron DeSantis had to be the adult in the room, and all but ordered the Legislature to lift the ban on smoking.
Now, as Florida Politics reported, 67 percent of likely voters approve legalizing weed for personal use. This wasn’t some flimsy internet poll, either. The respected Fabrizio, Lee & Associates firm did the work, and it certainly will energize efforts to place a constitutional amendment about this issue on the 2020 ballot.
Powerhouse Orlando attorney John Morgan has made this a personal crusade, and he plays for keeps.
The website Regulate Florida has a great quote on its homepage from comedian Bill Murray.
He said, “I find it quite ironic that the most dangerous thing about marijuana is getting caught with it.”
Well, it’s true, but the official tsk-tsk against pot by people in power goes back a long way. In the 1960s, the establishment considered marijuana a tool of the devil. That, of course, made rebellious youths of the era – I might have been one, not confirming – curious.
That made adults and lawmakers come down harder, and the over-reaction was incredible. I mean, if you want to get high do it like a real American with scotch, vodka, and bourbon. Am I right?
People received long prison terms for possessing small amounts of marijuana, and that’s absurd.
Those rebellious young folks are on Social Security now, but still don’t understand the fuss, and never will.
And, just guessing here, that scares the crap out of GOP lawmakers.
Republican state Rep. Jamie Grant led a pre-emptive strike in May with a bill that makes it harder to get constitutional amendments on the ballot. He also led the charge to make the restoration of voting rights for ex-felons harder to obtain.
The showdown between the people and lawmakers is becoming a regular thing.
]It always results in legal chicanery and counter moves out of Tallahassee, and I can hear it now. Voters didn’t know what they were approving, and we must save them!
They call that madness.
6 comments
Jane
August 27, 2019 at 7:42 pm
The idea that 75% of voters think legalizing marijuana a drug that has been proven to destroy brain cells especially in children proves their ignorance & stupidity!!
Brian Kelly
August 28, 2019 at 12:45 am
There is absolutely no doubt now that the majority of Americans want to completely legalize marijuana nationwide. Our numbers grow on a daily basis.
The prohibitionist view on marijuana is the viewpoint of a minority and rapidly shrinking percentage of Americans. It is based upon decades of lies and propaganda.
Each and every tired old lie they have propagated has been thoroughly proven false by both science and society.
Their tired old rhetoric no longer holds any validity. The vast majority of Americans have seen through the sham of marijuana prohibition in this day and age. The number of prohibitionists left shrinks on a daily basis.
With their credibility shattered, and their not so hidden agendas visible to a much wiser public, what’s left for a marijuana prohibitionist to do?
Maybe, just come to terms with the fact that Marijuana Legalization Nationwide is an inevitable reality that’s approaching much sooner than prohibitionists think, and there is nothing they can do to stop it!
Legalize Nationwide!…and Support All Marijuana Legalization Efforts!
Brian Kelly
August 28, 2019 at 12:46 am
Regarding “The Children”,
Let’s not use “The Children” as an excuse to prohibit and criminalize adult use of a natural plant far less dangerous than perfectly legal alcohol because nobody condones child use, and this is about allowing adults only to choose marijuana.
It’s our responsibility as parents by to educate our children on drug use. It’s not the government’s job to force Draconian Marijuana Laws upon every adult citizen under the guise of protecting “The Children”.
What message are we sending our children when it is easier for them to obtain marijuana now with it being illegal than it is for them to buy alcohol?
It doesn’t take the intellect of a genius to understand that stores card kids for I.D. Thugs and gang members do not. They also push the real hard drugs on children. Stores do not.
Marijuana legalization will make it harder for children to obtain it.
What message does it send our children when serveral the Presidents of The United States themselves alongside a long list of successful people openly admit regular pot use at one time or another in their lives?
While we tell our kids how it will ruin their futures, and then ensure so, by allowing our government to to jail our children and give them permanent criminal records when they get caught with a little Marijuana. Especially, if they are the wrong skin color or from the “wrong neighborhood”. Which in turn, ruins their chances of employment for life.
The Prohibition of Marijuana is the wrong message to send our children while we glorify, advertise and promote the much more dangerous use of alcohol like it’s an all American pastime.
The worst thing about marijuana and our children is what happens to them when they get caught up in the criminal justice system due to it’s prohibition.
Protect “The Children” and Our Neighborhoods Through The Legalization and Regulation of Marijuana Nationwide!
gary
August 28, 2019 at 3:08 am
wrong… this debate is far from over pot head!
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August 28, 2019 at 3:07 am
The science is in, weed destroys the human brain. Simple fact. The largest numbers institutionalized have one thing in common, they all had a long history of weed use, as did most of the mass shooters!
NO GO JOE!
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