Florida’s legislature passed a bill that enacted the state’s constitutional amendment to expand the use of medical marijuana. Unfortunately smoking it is banned however. The legislation which passed this past Friday, offers patients who suffer chronic pain related to 10 qualifying conditions to receive either low-THC cannabis or full-strength medical marijuana.
Florida’s Governor Rick Scott said that he will absolutely sign the bill, but when he does, the principal backer of getting the amendment on the ballot last year plans to sue.
Attorney John Morgan is suing over the law’s ban on smoking and has said that 71% of the people who voted for the amendment expected smoking as one of the ways to consume cannabis.
“I don’t know why they would object to anyone on their death bed wanting to use what they wanted to relieve pain and suffering,” John Morgan said in a phone interview with The Associated Press this past Friday. “If they were really concerned about smoking, why don’t they heavily tax cigarettes?”
Morgan intends to file a lawsuit in Leon County and has John Mills on his side, a constitutional law expert.
