[Ktots]

Originally Posted by nn0wheremann

50 years overdue, but the devil is in the details. Who gets to grow? Big donors to public figures? Or open competition in a free market? Limits on THC concentration? Penalties for distribution to minors? How about driving or operating machinery under the influence? Let’s see the actual text, and the underlying regulations?

I agree about the details, especially the growing aspect. What might be the impact on agriculture when farmers decide to grow pot for profitability instead of producing food? I haven’t seen this possibility examined. Am I missing something?

[tombpot]

You don’t have to smoke it buy a gummy. They have different strengths, also you can get CBD oil mixed with a small amount of marijuana mixed in for pain

[Cliff Fr]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

Nay, unless it accompanies very strict guidelines to protect medical patients and allows cultivation. Why, our other home is in Massachusetts and I have seen this play out. The dispensaries that now cater to medical only, with a variety of CBD dominant products for things like joint pain and inflammation, will dump the focus on medical products like a hot potato if recreational becomes legal. The profit is on recreational products that simply have the highest THC content to get the user blasted. Medical patients in Massachusetts can no longer find products anywhere that were easy to source before recreational became legal. Growing high CBD products is more difficult, has lower harvest yields, and is therefore less profitable. Making recreational legal has been a bad thing for medical patients. Regarding cultivation, it’s all about supply and demand relative to the black market. Without cultivation, the only sources of supply are dispensaries and the black market, keeping prices for the consumer very high. The dispensaries set prices at or just below the black market. Allowing cultivation is a game changer for product pricing, especially in Florida where the tropical climate is very conducive to growing. Allowing cultivation both crowds out the black market and forces overall prices significantly lower. No doubt, they want to curtail cultivation to force consumers to purchase from taxable government regulated entities.

Very informative response. I was on the fence but will vote no now.

[Fastskiguy]

I’m thinking…..maybe it’s time to lease some space for “Villages Weed” in brownwood….

Joe

[airstreamingypsy]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

Marijuana is already legal in Florida?

Then why need to be voted on?

So we don't have to pay $500.00 a year, almost, to buy it.

[Byte1]

Ironic that they have all BUT criminalized smoking tobacco, yet now folks will be able to/encouraged to smoke pot. Guess good ole Uncle Sam is not making enough tax money from old tobaccie anymore. Other than making some folks wealthy, I see no benefit by making another drug, legal. Isn't alcohol enough of a recreational drug? Maybe we can start our own Amsterdam? How's that working out for the Netherlands?

[Byte1]

Originally Posted by MrChip72

I've spent time in Denver before and after legalization. I don't believe that marijuana is the root cause of their problems. Many articles cite gang and gun violence as well as meth and opiodes have overtaken Denver. No mention of marijuana. I honestly have never seen a ring of pot smokers doing burglaries, robberies and gang-style shootings.

Most places that legalized weed have experienced lower crime (feel free to look up recent non-partisan studies) and also save money on people getting incarcerated for smoking a joint which is absurd when it's legal in many places and easy to access almost anywhere.

They legalized it in our area up north and the street dealers went out of business overnight and many just got legitimate jobs at dispensaries. Same thing happened when prohibition ended 100 years ago with alcohol.

I'm shocked that anyone is against all of the tax revenue that it produces. It's not like people start smoking weed when it becomes legal. That never happens.

[CybrSage]

Originally Posted by dougjb

Ban alcohol. Put Marijuana in every person's lunch bucket! See how mellow our society becomes!
1

Until the Sativa Effect hits when too much is smoked and the person literally loses their mind for an hour or so. Paranoia, feelings of impending doom, etc.

At low level, I agree with you...mellow.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by Indydealmaker

You need a better understanding of medical marijuana in this state. The patient has limited access to the product and all purchases are tracked and controlled through a state database.

Won't the legal non-medical Marijuana also have limited access, or will you be able to buy and possess unlimited amounts, even if you are not a licensed dealer?

[GATORBILL66]

Vote No, we have enough crazies on the road now. Let them go to another state if they want to get high!

[CybrSage]

Originally Posted by Byte1

Maybe we can start our own Amsterdam? How's that working out for the Netherlands?

I wish we would, our crime rate would plummet.

Netherlands vs United States Crime Stats Compared

[GATORBILL66]

[QUOTE=dougjb;2341789]Ban alcohol. Put Marijuana in every person's lunch bucket! See how mellow our society becomes!


And no work will be done!

[Joe C.]

I vote NO. Keep it illegal ...... it doesn't do society any good.
If the government wants more tax money, then make the fine for illegal use $1000 for the first offense, $2000 for the second offense and so on. That will keep the tax collectors happy and keep law enforcement busy.
BTW, people complain about how cigarette smoke and cigar smoke stinks and is annoying ........Pot smoke absolutely stinks as bad as an overflowing cesspool.

[CybrSage]

Originally Posted by Ktots

I agree about the details, especially the growing aspect. What might be the impact on agriculture when farmers decide to grow pot for profitability instead of producing food? I haven’t seen this possibility examined. Am I missing something?

Very little impact. Florida maybe one of the better states to grow it in. It needs warm, humid air with lots of sunlight. That is why it grows so well in south America and Asia.

There are some strains that grow well without all that but they still grow better in such conditions.

Greenhouses are usually used.

[airstreamingypsy]

It's a yes for me, the free state of Florida taking so many rights away, it's time to give us one. I take a gummy every night, and finally can sleep with no after effects like sleep drugs give me. It never should have been illegal in the first place, it was during the "war on drugs" which was used to target certain communities. Black Americans are arrested for violating marijuana possession laws at nearly four times the rates of white Americans, yet both consume marijuana at roughly the same rates.