{"id":1492,"date":"2013-03-26T07:09:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T07:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=20772"},"modified":"2013-03-26T07:09:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T07:09:35","slug":"list-of-potential-medical-marijuana-states-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/list-of-potential-medical-marijuana-states-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Potential Medical Marijuana States Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/list-of-potential-medical-marijuana-states-growing\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/green-cross1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"green cross\" title=\"green cross\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20773\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/list-of-potential-medical-marijuana-states-growing\/attachment\/green-cross-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20773\" title=\"green cross\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/green-cross1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>As we have been reporting (with regularity), support for medical marijuana is swelling.\u00a0 Many new states appear to be on the verge of passing laws that would permit the use of medical marijuana.\u00a0 Currently, there are already 18 states that have passed laws to legalize medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri may be one of the newest states to join the rapidly growing list of medical marijuana states.\u00a0 The push to reform marijuana laws has moved beyond the the coastal states.\u00a0 A recent poll suggests that over half of Missouri residents support a physician\u2019s right to prescribe marijuana.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/could-missouri-next-state-legalize-marijuana-161500135.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo.com ask<\/a>s if Missouri could be the next state to legalize medical marijuana, and provides a breakdown of the polling data.<\/p>\n<p>Florida is also another state where the conversation is picking up.\u00a0 While momentum has been gaining for years in the Sunshine State, it truly seems to have hit a high water mark.\u00a0 Last week, we at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/marijuana-industry-news-march-22-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">marijuana.net spoke about John Morgan<\/a> , who has now assumed the role of chairman for activists group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pufmm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">People United for Medical Marijuana-Florida<\/a> He has an incredible track record for raising money (even for\u00a0 President Barack Obama) and he will likely now take those skills and place tremendous pressure on lawmakers to take action.\u00a0 Mr. Morgan should have a captive audience <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpp.org\/states\/florida\/\" target=\"_blank\">as a recent poll<\/a> showed that 70 percent of \u00a0Florida residents support medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that in the near future a majority of states will decide to let residents make their own choices in pain relief.\u00a0 If Florida or Missouri legalize medical marijuana, then there could be many other previously unexpected states to follow suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/green-cross1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"green cross\" title=\"green cross\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20773\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/list-of-potential-medical-marijuana-states-growing\/attachment\/green-cross-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20773\" title=\"green cross\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/green-cross1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>As we have been reporting (with regularity), support for medical marijuana is swelling.\u00a0 Many new states appear to be on the verge of passing laws that would permit the use of medical marijuana.\u00a0 Currently, there are already 18 states that have passed laws to legalize medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri may be one of the newest states to join the rapidly growing list of medical marijuana states.\u00a0 The push to reform marijuana laws has moved beyond the the coastal states.\u00a0 A recent poll suggests that over half of Missouri residents support a physician\u2019s right to prescribe marijuana.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/could-missouri-next-state-legalize-marijuana-161500135.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo.com ask<\/a>s if Missouri could be the next state to legalize medical marijuana, and provides a breakdown of the polling data.<\/p>\n<p>Florida is also another state where the conversation is picking up.\u00a0 While momentum has been gaining for years in the Sunshine State, it truly seems to have hit a high water mark.\u00a0 Last week, we at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/marijuana-industry-news-march-22-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">marijuana.net spoke about John Morgan<\/a> , who has now assumed the role of chairman for activists group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pufmm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">People United for Medical Marijuana-Florida<\/a> He has an incredible track record for raising money (even for\u00a0 President Barack Obama) and he will likely now take those skills and place tremendous pressure on lawmakers to take action.\u00a0 Mr. Morgan should have a captive audience <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpp.org\/states\/florida\/\" target=\"_blank\">as a recent poll<\/a> showed that 70 percent of \u00a0Florida residents support medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that in the near future a majority of states will decide to let residents make their own choices in pain relief.\u00a0 If Florida or Missouri legalize medical marijuana, then there could be many other previously unexpected states to follow suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,344,1511,56,9,425,51,70,1,3,61],"tags":[2632,2922,4079,2636,3003,2631,5,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}