Once cannabis is legal, we will be able to develop standards for impairment and accurate tests. Under legal cannabis we can make laws that protect a patients right to drive with cannabis in their system.
Under this amendment, lawmakers may pass strong penalties for diversion of cannabis to minors.
If the founding fathers had foreseen the push to keep people from plant based medicines, they may very well have added it to the bill of rights themselves.
Leading voices in law enforcement are speaking out about the cost of prohibition. Keeping cannabis illegal drives criminal profits, marginalizes users and prevents law abiding citizens from accessing it for therapeutic reasons.
BALLOT SUMMARY: This amendment guarantees the right of persons over twenty-one years of age to possess, use, and cultivate cannabis (commonly referred to as marijuana), reserving to the State the power to regulate its purchase and sale in the interest of health and safety. This amendment applies only to Florida law and state action, and does not immunize violations of federal law.