Florida medical marijuana ballot initiative

The truth about how Med­ical Mar­i­jua­na and what it means to the grow­ing list of states that allow it.

In many ways for years there has been an issue with the use of cannabis and its relat­ed prod­ucts that have been sold for years in many states.

While there are demon­strat­ed  issues that are a by prod­uct of legal med­ical mar­i­jua­na the fact is that for some peo­ple it is some­thing that can help in the treat­ment of some med­ical con­di­tions.

It could be that for some peo­ple the prop­er use of med­ical mar­i­jua­na might actu­al­ly help and yes it is true that there are some that will abuse the sys­tem.

The thing is there are some peo­ple that will use med­ical mar­i­jua­na when there is lit­tle or no rea­son to do so.

They are those peo­ple that would take this med­ica­tion and use it as a recre­ation­al drug, they are going to do that any­way.

You can reduce the num­ber of peo­ple who do this how­ev­er you cant stop them from actu­al­ly going out and buy­ing it on the streets.

You can call it a gate­way drug, but in essence almost every thing is a gate­way drug and the most impor­tant thing to con­sid­er is that the num­ber one gate­way drug has not been effec­tive­ly reg­u­lat­ed.

The iden­ti­ty of that  gate­way drug might sur­prise you.

Cig­a­rettes are the sin­gle biggest gate­way drug peri­od.

Or could it be some­thing else?

Like Alco­hol…

Yes, 20 years of anti cig­a­rette com­mer­cials, on TV on the radio, on var­i­ous forms of media, have not deterred the over­all use of this drug.

Using cig­a­rettes can lead to alco­hol use and oth­er drugs. 

It is a fact that it is a short hop skip and a jump from cig­a­rettes to alco­holic bev­er­ages.

The truth about almost every­thing in life is that mak­ing a smart choice can be dif­fi­cult and more than any­thing else, it is most impor­tant to real­ize that you can­not stop peo­ple from mak­ing poor choic­es, you can make it ille­gal, you can throw peo­ple in jail, you can ostra­cize them from soci­ety, but noth­ing you try to do will stop that small per­cent­age of the pop­u­la­tion that are going to do what they want to do regard­less of the con­se­quences.