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Legal Marijuana Amendment

March 30th, 2009 by Mike Vasilinda

Marijuana would become virtually legal in Florida under a proposed constitutional amendment. 

Students at FSU were gathering petitions for the amendment which will need almost seven hundred thousand signatures to get on the 2010 ballot. The amendment would make it legal to grow, buy and possess pot when deemed necessary for medical reasons.  Kim Russell of Orlando is one of the organizers and she says it could help her father with Parkinson’s disease avoid surgery.

“I’m trying to help my father and other seriously ill patients by providing marijuana,” Russell said. “It’s a pain reducer, it’s a neuro-protector, meaning it protects the brain, it has antioxidant properties. There are many medicinal uses for it.”

Thirteen other states have already taken some steps to legalize medical uses of marijuana. Nine others, including Florida, could vote on the measure in 2010.

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