Pubdate: Fri, 31 Oct 2014
Source: Pensacola News Journal (FL)
Copyright: 2014 The Pensacola News Journal
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Author: Hugh B. Hall Jr.

NO MARIJUANA IN CONSTITUTION

Thank you for your excellent editorial, "'NO' to Amendment 2."

As you state, we already have a medical marijuana law that provides 
"a specific strain of medical marijuana that drastically reduced 
seizures." It also provides for other medical conditions as well. If 
anyone has questions about this law, let him or her ask our 
representative, Matt Gaetz, who helped draft the legislation. Because 
we already have a law, we don't need another, much less an amendment 
to the Constitution!

Amendment 2 is opposed by seven former justices of the Florida 
Supreme Court, including our own Justice Kenneth Bell, and by the 
Florida Sheriffs Association. Sheriff David Morgan has spoken 
publicly and forcefully against Amendment 2.

I think you are exactly right. There is "a flood of money surrounding 
this amendment." This is big business at its worst. The motivation 
here is not mercy, but money! This is the service of Mammon, with no 
regard for its effect on society.

When I first heard about Amendment 2, I was impressed. I thought I 
was being compassionate, but now I realize I was being conned! Thank 
you again for your editorial. Vote "NO" to Amendment 2!

- - Hugh B. Hall Jr.

Gulf Breeze
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