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The patients in Florida would like to point out:
Florida Health Officials reported there are 1.6 MILLION Floridians that would be eligible for treatment using medical cannabis. That is acknowledgement of medical value, the numbers are taken from those with diseases that are clearly documented to benefit from medical cannabis. That means those people tried everything else and found more relief and benefit from cannabis than standard treatment. Why would we deny this for Floridians?

Science has discovered the endocannabinoid system. As Raphael Mechoulem, the man who originally discovered THC in 1964 and has been studying cannabis ever since, whose team discovered the endocannabinoid system in 1987, states, "There is barely a biological or physiological system in our bodies in which the endocannabinoids do not participate".

The ECS (endocannabinoid system) is a modulator of physiological functions in the central nervous system, in the autonomic nervous system, the endocrine network, the immune system, the gastrointestinal tract, the reproductive system, in microcirculation, and the cytokine network, which is the source of inflammation, the cause of nearly if not all disease. Just as diabetics do not produce enough insulin some people don't produce enough endocannabinoids. The cannabinoids in cannabis are so close to our own that they work the same.

Speaking about raw cannabis juiced, researcher Dr William L. Courtney states, "It (cannabis) has captures these molecules that help our bodies regulatory system be more effective. The bottom line is it's a dietary essential that helps all 210 cell types function more effectively. I don't even refer to it as medicine anymore, strictly as a dietary essential."

Thousands of deaths each year in the U.S. are caused by MRSA. A recent study shows hemp fabric stops the spread of Staph and MRSA. In light of that, with the Staph and MRSA epidemic in most U.S. Hospitals wouldn't it be wise to use hemp fabric for all hospital bedding, towels, clothing and curtains? Isn't saving lives and ending MRSA worth changing the policy?

No one should have a gun in their face from law enforcement, be arrested, humiliated, degraded or treated as a subculture for their choice of medicine and/or health needs.

We ask you to change your resolution!

Recently I was asked, "If you only had 3 pieces of "empirical scientific data" to present in favor of de-scheduling cannabis off the Controlled Substances Act, which would they be?!
My Answer:
THE ENDOCANNABINOID SYSTEM: PHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY
http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/1/2.long

Role of the endocannabinoid system in food intake, energy homeostasis and regulation of the endocrine pancreas.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21055418

Antineoplastic and apoptotic effects of cannabinoids. N-acylethanolamines: protectors or killers?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18438336

[Average Joe]

Will the petition pass in November is the question. Remember this is not a normal process. This amendment must get 60% of the favorable votes to pass. That is huge.

Well for one, it has this deputies vote! Being doing this job for well over two decades and I can tell you that beyond a shadow of a doubt, I can hardly think of a hands worth of fingers of crimes that occurred solely because of the EFFECTS of marijuana.

This list does not include any robberies or thefts in order to obtain the large cash flow or product while it's listed as ILLEGAL to possess or sell. Rarely does marijuana ever make someone violent as compared to most other drugs, particularly alcohol alone!

Having seen the emotional & physical damage caused to person(s) I love, who have & were caught up in the stigma that now goes along with those legitimately being injured and/or in pain and unable to obtain the proper pain medication to ease ones pain because of the unfair collateral damage the pill mill hype levied on all true pain patients as well, I can only vote yes on this topic.

We all continue to lose more "Rights" in this country, just like whats happening to law enforcement officers at every chance power hungry leadership like HCSO for example gets. The people that are in pain, should be the last ones that should have to needlessly suffer due to the known problems arising from our country's screwed up and crooked political processes. We all now see first hand what happens when power hungry leaders get elected into positions (sheriff) that they have no business ever holding.

The only reason John Morgan is bankrolling this is to get his law partner, Charlie Crist elected. They know if they can get the potheads and liberals out to vote for medical marijuana they will vote for Crist while they are there. You think there is a problem with pill mills now? Wait till they try and pass this bogus amendment. John Morgan could care less about the average man/woman or their medical ailments.

[The Nitely Blog]

Although I have no interest in smoking weed I think the time has come to legalize it for a multitude of reasons. I have a friend up here in the mountains that has some serious medical issues. His doctors have tried all types of surgeries and prescription medications to include pain pills and none of this has helped him find relief but smoking Marijuana lets him function.

You then have the monetary issues that legalizing would bring. Tax it and regulate it like alcohol and tobacco. The states would make money off of it like that as well as the added benefit of reducing the cost associated with prosecuting someone for it's possession. The court system would see their dockets shrink and the cops on the street would see a drop in their workload when they were no longer having to worry about someone with a sack of weed. Time, energy and money would be better spent dealing with the drugs that actually kill people. During my time as a cop I responded to a lot of death investigations that were the result of someone overdosing on hard drugs or drinking their self's to death. Never once did I respond to a marijuana OD dead body call.

People that smoke Marijuana for whatever reason are going to continue to smoke it whether it is legal or not. The time has come to recognize that fact and make some tax dollars off of it as well as save money by getting pot smokers out of the legal system. You may also see the added benefit of a REAL (not the HCSO UCR version) of a reduction in crime on the streets with it's legalization and isn't that what we all are striving for anyways? Just my opinion.