Gov. Scott polls on pot legalization.. might pass in 2012?

So he is pro-pill factories AND pro-pot? :cool:

Based on my experiences with "legal as long as you have a prescription", there need to be restrictions on which doctors can prescribe it.

Typically the majority of prescriptions are written by a few doctors who have a history of licensing and legal issues.

Also need to specify how close dispensaries can be located places like schools.

That sounds as though those are regulations which might inhibit business and he is pro business and anti regulation. Also if its like anything like California we'll be having cities that will want to expand it contrary to State and Federal restrictions. Then we can be like some western states where having acertain amount would not be enforced. Oh this is just my opinion.

So he is pro-pill factories AND pro-pot? :cool:

Based on my experiences with "legal as long as you have a prescription", there need to be restrictions on which doctors can prescribe it.

Typically the majority of prescriptions are written by a few doctors who have a history of licensing and legal issues.

Also need to specify how close dispensaries can be located places like schools.

So he is pro-pill factories AND pro-pot? :cool:

Based on my experiences with "legal as long as you have a prescription", there need to be restrictions on which doctors can prescribe it.

Typically the majority of prescriptions are written by a few doctors who have a history of licensing and legal issues.

Also need to specify how close dispensaries can be located places like schools.

All the details can be fleshed out in state law. The amendment would simply legalize it. I think with a little positive advertising another 2 or 3 percent could be won over allowing such a change to pass. Then we could tax the stuff.

All the details can be fleshed out in state law. The amendment would simply legalize it. I think with a little positive advertising another 2 or 3 percent could be won over allowing such a change to pass. Then we could tax the stuff.

Sorry Florida will not tax the stuff, we don't tax medicine.

That's a big flaw in the plan IMO.

That's a big flaw in the plan IMO.

I agree

How come that has never come up before in all the discussions about how legalizing pot is the way to balance the budget?

I'm pretty sure I pay sales tax on the purchase of Advil at the supermarket. :idontno:

Weird - Google seems to say Florida has a sales tax exemption for food, prescription medicine, and OTC medicine.

I thought OTC was taxable.

Well, then the legislature would have to change the laws. But that shouldn't be hard to do if the amendment passes.

How come that has never come up before in all the discussions about how legalizing pot is the way to balance the budget?

That talk comes from the people who want to see it become a legal intoxicant like alcohol or cigarettes.

Marijuana is still illegal?

Marijuana is still illegal?

Yes...please send me all the pot you have, so I can give it the proper authorities. :cool:

I think you're missing the point on state income from this. While not taxed you can charge massive fees for dispensaries and growers, this would also limit the shady fly-by-night operations from popping up.

Further if legalized as a medicine it doesn't mean you can just walk around with a bag of weed. You'd still have to provide a prescription in your name. This is currently the case with prescription pills.

If the growers etc make a profit, they pay taxes.

In my HO, it should be legalized and taxed like cigarettes and alcohol. It should be grown by any farmer, like tabacco. The judicial system and jails will be less jammed and the pot kingpins will be dethrowned therefore less violence.

Currently, the states that have legalized "medical marijuana" issue the seeds and regulate crop size, licensure and dispensing. The license is issued by lottery and the farmer makes big $$$$$. I toured a marijuana farm in another state owned by a 77 year old man who has been issued a license for 12 plants, and he grows for another 4 or 5 licensees. It's an interesting operation. Ridiculously over regulated IMHO.