" The medical marijuana cause also benefited from the leadership of the high-profile, and wealthy, Florida attorney, John Morgan....
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...Morgan said some patients find that smoking cannabis is more effective in relieving symptoms than other ways of ingesting the drug. Besides, he said, voters gave a clear message to the Legislature that medical marijuana should be available in all forms.
"Sixty percent is a landslide; 71 percent, I don't know what that is," Morgan said. "And I do know that the people of Florida knew exactly what they were voting on when they voted. And when they were voting on it, the vast majority, if not 100 percent, knew that smoke was included."
House Majority Leader Ray Rodrigues, R-Estero, said blocking smokable cannabis is a matter of public health because inhaling smoke is not healthy or a proper way to take a medicine. Rodrigues said little to specifically counter Morgan's argument about voter intent, saying that it is now a matter for the courts.
"We believe the Legislature has enacted an implementing bill that is true to both the letter and the spirit of the constitutional amendment, and we believe we will prevail in court," he said. "If smoking were intended then it should have been declared so in the constitutional amendment."
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