Judge strikes down Legislature's ban on smoking medical marijuana

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A Leon County circuit court judge ruled Friday afternoon that the state’s ban on smoking medical marijuana is unconstitutional, setting up continued legal fights as the state appeals the decision.

In a 22-page order, Judge Karen Gievers said that the Legislature's ban on smoking medical cannabis conflicted with the intent of a constitutional amendment that had broadly legalized the drug for medical use after voters approved it in 2016.

She concurred with arguments made last Wednesday by Jon Mills, an attorney for the plaintiffs, contending the definition approved by voters included "all types of medical marijuana," including forms that can be smoked. Mills had also argued that the amendment implicitly recognized smoking in private by recognizing that there was no right to smoke it in public places.

Gievers, in striking down the ban, invoked both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in her decision and highlighted Washington's characterization of the constitution as a "sacred obligation.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article211954564.html

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1. This should also start to open up sales, at first of low-thc flower then regular medicinal cannabis

Can't wait, but this should keep the cops off my back if a neighbor reports me for stepping out and lighting up on the porch as I am known to do.

Smoking is damn near instantaneous for me and how I prefer to get relief.