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ADS LIGHT ON FACTS ABOUT MARIJUANA

The "No on Amendment 2" crowd has sunk to a new low.  A recent ad shows an attractive female MD who tells us that Amendment 2 would permit marijuana without a doctor's prescription.  Please read the amendment.  It specifies that it would be available "as determined by a licensed Florida physician." Additionally, the ad states that it would allow people to have medication not sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration.  Apparently it ignores the reality that the FDA permits prescribing medications that result in thousands of overdoses and deaths every year.  No one has overdosed on marijuana, apparently an inconvenient truth.  I fully realize that individuals should investigate the merits of the amendment on their own, but to present such blatant misinformation is an insult.  Perhaps informing the public of the potential dangers of marijuana vs.  prescribed pain medication would be illuminating, although potentially limiting to some physicians' practices.  Please present the facts.

EDWARD STAFFIRE, OKEECHOBEE