{"id":5245,"date":"2015-12-23T03:39:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T03:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=4050"},"modified":"2015-12-23T03:39:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T03:39:25","slug":"florida-supreme-court-approves-language-of-medical-marijuana-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/florida-supreme-court-approves-language-of-medical-marijuana-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Supreme Court Approves Language Of Medical Marijuana Proposal"},"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\/florida-supreme-court-approves-language-of-medical-marijuana-proposal\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday approved language of a proposed constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana for people with debilitating medical conditions, paving the way for a vote next year.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters must gather enough petition signatures to ensure the measure will be placed on the 2016 ballot.<\/p>\n<p>United With Care, a medical marijuana advocacy group, said on its website it needs to secure 683,149 signatures by Dec. 31 to bring the amendment to a popular vote. Some 400,000 Florida residents have already signed the petition, the group said.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia allow marijuana use for those suffering from a range of ailments, from HIV to glaucoma and cancer to epilepsy.<\/p>\n<p>The language approved by the Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee addressed whether the proposed amendment informed voters fairly on the issue and also accepted a financial impact statement prepared by economists, the Tampa Bay Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2014 poll, state residents said they supported the legalization of medical marijuana with 57.6 percent of the vote, the newspaper said. Sixty percent would be required to pass a constitutional amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents of the measure saw drawbacks could include the backdoor legalization of recreational marijuana in the state.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/florida-supreme-court-approves-language-of-medical-marijuana-proposal.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>News Moderator: Jacob Redmond <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a><br \/>\nFull Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/florida-medical-marijuana-idUSL1N1470OC20151218\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Supreme Court Approves Language Of Medical Marijuana Proposal<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: Victoria Cavaliere<br \/>\nContact: <a href=\"https:\/\/reuters.zendesk.com\/anonymous_requests\/new\" target=\"_blank\">Contact Reuters<\/a><br \/>\nPhoto Credit: None Found<br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday approved language of a proposed constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana for people with debilitating&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/2015\/12\/florida-supreme-court-approves-language-of-medical-marijuana-proposal\/\" class=\"read-more\">[Read More]<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1614,9,1,3],"tags":[4182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245"}],"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=5245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}