Supporters of medical marijuana in Florida have gathered enough signatures to get Amendment 2 back on the ballot come November.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Supporters of medical marijuana in Florida have gathered enough signatures to get Amendment 2 back on the ballot come November.
In 2014, the medical marijuana movement missed 2 percent of the vote it needed to pass.
Orlando attorney John Morgan, who’s bankrolling the movement, said at a press conference Thursday he’s confident enough voters will support the updated amendment.
This time around, supporters said they’ve closed loopholes and they believe after November, medical marijuana will be legal in Florida.
“We only lost a battle and not the war. (We’re) coming back to finish the battle and win the war,” said Morgan.
The 58 percent of voters across Florida who supported medical marijuana in 2014 will have their say again this presidential election.
Supporters gathered the support of more than 683,149 voters needed to get the item on the ballot. It took less time to get on the ballot than it did in 2014.
Next, it has to pass on the November ballot by 60 percent.
And with the addition of a few words that Morgan said will close any loopholes in the law, he’s confident it will pass.
“What we did was clarify the list of debilitating diseases, or other debilitating diseases,” he said.
This time, it’s not just the wording that will help push the momentum forward, but also strategy he’s learned along the way.
Morgan said his group worked too hard to reach the young voters and get them to the polls and that didn’t quite work.
“I really should have been educating older people like me,” he said.
For 2016, his group will target voters who are 60 or older.
Because this is a presidential election year, he said there will be more voters to reach and he’s predicting success.
“If we can pass this 400K, really sick people will benefit on day one,” he said.
The amendment would include smokable marijuana, if it passes.
Morgan said if the amendment fails this time around he would support someone else taking over the movement.
Source: John Morgan confident medical marijuana will pass second time around | WFTV
