A lawsuit was filed on Thursday by John Morgan, an Orlando attorney, that would give patients the right to smoke their medical marijuana in their own homes.

The state has banned the smoking of medical marijuana and only allows it to be administered through vaping, oils, edibles, and other delivery systems.

Morgan filed a lawsuit in Leon County Circuit Court over the new law’s ban on smoking marijuana.

According to the lawsuit, marijuana smoking actually increases lung capacity and does not impair with lung function. The lawsuit has cited a study from 2012 that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study’s conclusion was “based on the doses inhaled by the majority of users, as compared to non-smokers and tobacco smokers.”

“The amendment said smoking was not allowed in public places. I don’t think you have to be too much of a scholar to understand that that means it is allowed in private,” Morgan said. “I don’t know how much simpler it can be than that.”

House Majority Leader Ray Rodrigues, R-Estero, was the sponsor of the bill and according to him, the public ban on smoking in the amendment did not preclude them from adding a ban on private smoking as well.

“I don’t know what he does for a living, but I would never hire someone that dumb, that that’s their deductive reasoning,” Morgan remarked.

“If Morgan and his team had been honest with the public and had put clear language in there that they wanted this smoked like recreational marijuana, the voters would have had second thoughts about the issue and they would realize they’re being tricked,” said Calvina Fay, executive director of Drug Free America.

“All during the campaign, they consistently said that marijuana is a good medicine and sick people should be allowed to have it. The Legislature took them at their word and treated it like a medicine.”

Morgan commented on if he loses the lawsuit and said, “If they piss me off too much, I’ll address the smoking issue by having a constitutional amendment legalizing marijuana,” he said. “If I lose in court, I’ll go through all the marijuana people I know, it won’t take a lot of money, and we will move to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Then they’ll really be sorry they pushed me.”


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