On Saturday afternoon in Tampa, the group working to get a medical marijuana amendment on the 2014 ballot,United For Care/People United for Medical Marijuana (PUFMM), invited volunteers currently gathering signatures for the initiative to a training session. The session involved an explanation of the aspects petition, what a person must sign for a petition to be valid and how to go about the gathering, from where it's legal to stand to dealing with oppositional types.
The petition was crafted by attorneys with knowledge of what would pass the Florida Supreme Court, which lead to it being very rigid in it's definition, strictly focused on medical marijuana and the ailments it treats, while clearly defining who is allowed to give and receive the treatment.
The audience's questions ranged from why certain ailments such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder weren't included on the petition, how medical marijuana will be regulated if the initiative is passed and why just medical marijuana as opposed to full legalization being advocated.
This article appears in Aug 1-7, 2013.