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Florida Amendment 2 (2014)
Florida Amendment 2, Use of Marijuana for Certain Medical Conditions, is an initiative that appeared on the November 4, 2014, ballot in the state of Florida as a citizen initiated state constitutional amendment.
It was officially certified by the state's secretary of state to appear on the 2014 November ballot and numbered Amendment 2, not to be confused with the 2008 ban on same-sex marriage of the same name. If it had been enacted, the measure would have allowed for the cultivation, purchase, possession and use of medical cannabis to treat certain medical conditions when recommended by a licensed physician. The amendment was introduced by People United for Medical Marijuana on March 26, 2009.〔(''Florida Department of State Division of Elections'', "Initiatives / Amendments / Revisions," Retrieved January 5, 2012 )〕〔(''Kush'' "Florida Marijuana Initiative Needs Over 670,000 Signatures for 2014 Ballot," May 3, 2012 )〕 Supporters are widespread and include some notable public figures, the Florida Cannabis Action Network and John Morgan, head of the Morgan and Morgan law firm.〔(News-Press.com, "Florida medical marijuana advocates claim impending victory," June 3, 2013 )〕 Highly respected members of society have acknowledged the viable need for this legislation even admitting publicly to assisting loved ones to obtain medical marijuana including last sessions Florida State Senate President, Jon Gaetz.〔http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-stein/floridas-medical-marijuan_1_b_5772358.html?utm_hp_ref=medical-marijuana〕 To date Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have already passed legislation allowing doctors to recommend the medicinal use of marijuana thereby legalizing a patients possession and use.〔http://news.yahoo.com/oregon-alaska-d-c-next-vote-legal-marijuana-100031405--politics.html;_ylt=AwrBEiG4_0pUQh4AgavQtDMD〕 Opponents include Sheldon Adelson, a Nevada Billionaire who donated $2.5 million to the Drug Free Florida Committee, which is a political committee that tried to defeat the measure.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/25755667/nevada-billionaire-spending-millions-against-fla-marijuana-amendment )〕
==2014 gubernatorial politics==
The ballot measure is expected to have a significant impact on the 2014 governor's race, as the state's governor will be elected the same day the measure is voted on and both leading candidates have directly opposing views on the issue. Gubernatorial candidate, former governor, and former Morgan and Morgan employee Charlie Crist(D) supports it, while the incumbent governor Rick Scott(R) is opposed to it, with attorney general Pam Bondi leading an effort to keep it off the ballot, ultimately failing when the state's Supreme Court ruled in favor of the proposed ballot measure. Under Florida's Constitution and judiciary Florida's Supreme Court has ultimate authority and jurisdiction over state constitutional interpretation. Here, Pam Biondi backed by Rick Scott filed suit to prevent Florida residents from exercising the constitutionally guaranteed right to vote on the proposed constitutional amendment. This is the third citizen backed initiative to amend the Florida Constitution to allow for the medical use of cannabis however, several "hail-mary passes" which consisted of filing legal challenges with seconds remaining on the clock have successfully kept this matter off the voters ballot for years, effectively denying Floridian's their right to put the question to the democratic voting process. In opposition to the vote, court documents alleged each year that the proposed amendment failed to meet the rules of statutory construction regarding vagueness and violated the single subject matter rule. (State of Florida v. Citizens) Prior years experience educated the seriously ill citizens of Florida as in the oft cited lament "justice delayed is justice denied". Not to be deterred a citizens for compassion petition for a proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution on the matter of decriminalizing the medicinal use of cannabis was yet again drafted, the proposed amendment was put into a simplified statement using elementary language and petitioners began gathering the requisite minimum number of voter signatures well in advance of the deadline in order to preemptively place the proposed ballot language before the Court anticipating the inevitable legal challenge.〔(''Bradenton Herald'', "Medical marijuana group gets 110,000 signatures, waits for high court ruling," August 16, 2013 )〕 This time the Court ruled well before the ballot deadline, they determined the language of the proposed amendment was neither vague nor confusing finding that voters will know what they are voting upon and the proposed amendment specifically addressed only one subject matter as required under the Florida Constitution and will finally be placed before the voters.〔http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/decisions/2014/sc13-2006.pdf〕 The Court used not so subtle cues by citing the rules of review from an advisory opinion titled "Advisory Op. to Att’y Gen. re Right to Treatment & Rehab. for Non-Violent Drug Offenses", finding, "This Court has traditionally applied a deferential standard of review to the validity of a citizen initiative petition and “has been reluctant to interfere” with “the right of self-determination for all Florida’s citizens” to formulate “their own organic law.” 〔Advisory Op. to Att’y Gen. re Right to Treatment & Rehab. for Non-Violent Drug Offenses, 818 So. 2d 491, 494 (Fla. 2002).〕 The Court leads the current administration and legislators to the river reflecting Florida's voters and current societal trends are for the reform the justice system and decriminalization of the use of marijuana. Admonishing them as representatives of constituents "There is no lawful reason why the electors of this State should not have the right to determine the manner in which the Constitution may be amended. This is the most sanctified area in which a court can exercise power. Sovereignty resides in the people and the electors have a right to approve or reject a proposed amendment to the organic law of this State, limited only by those instances where there is an entire failure to comply with a plain and essential requirement of (law )., Id. (quoting Pope v. Gray, 104 So. 2d 841, 842 (Fla. 1958))." 〔
Charlie Crist's former law firm, Morgan and Morgan, heavily pushed for the ballot measure and became involved in the petition efforts to get it on the ballot. The candidate and former governor himself donated a large sum of his own money to the effort.
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