Many can agree that doctors are allowed to “prescribe poisons” to patients such as Oxycodone, killing 16,000, and Tylenol, killing 12,000 people, annually.
Attorney John Morgan made this argument Oct.13 live on Fox 13 news. He debated against Polk County Sheriff, Grady Judd, who insisted there are “loopholes” in the second amendment, allowing all “persons” to use marijuana.
Anyone “can get medical marijuana for anything,” he said. Judd felt “the point” of several questions were irrelevant to the topic of the 30 minute debate, although it appeared he was just simply too unprepared to answer them. Like when Morgan asked “the easiest question of the night,” which was if the amendment were specific to illnesses such as ALS, HIV, Parkinson’s, cancer, glaucoma and hepatitis, would he support it.
Judd responded a specific list “is not the issue,” and if it had been he “wouldn’t be sitting here tonight.” Morgan suggested Judd was pleading the fifth and “when people plead the fifth, we know what they mean.”
Morgan stated veterans and cancer patients are the most popular supporters of the amendment, “not one person has died from marijuana” and “there are no medical risks” to using it. I have to agree with Morgan there, too many people are dying from the man-made pills that are prescribed, which some get high and overdose on.
You’ve never heard of a THC overdose have you? Judd seemingly disagreed, saying “the amendment, in its current form, is a train wreck.” If written into the constitution it would be “almost impossible to get it out.”
Speaking of prescriptions, Judd argued that a doctor would never recommend smoking as a health treatment, and consumptions of the drug would be “marketed to our children.”
Morgan, who agreed smoking was unhealthy, was not “scared” by Judd‘s “smart politics,” and assured the public that companies who provide weed-based treatment such as “gummy bears” and “cookies,” will be sued immediately.
Morgan, whose quadriplegic brother uses the drug “everyday illegally,” does not wish for the drug to be fully legal. He is certain the FDA would never approve it because it is a “schedule one” drug.
Morgan has also left “doctors off the hook” in the amendment. He says that there are “crooked” and “unethical” business people everywhere, and a physician’s “immunity” is only acceptable if they are distributing the drug in a legal manner, not through “the back door.”
In reference to the crime in Florida, Judd said that the passing of the amendment would cause the rate of crime to be “up some, then down some because crime is cyclical.” Basically, saying that weed would not make a difference in the general rate of crime. Again, a weak and unprepared argument.
Of course, the conversation of alcohol versus weed came up. Morgan suggested that events like the Super Bowl cause the Sheriff to be busy handling those who went from “Red Bull and Vodka, to cocaine,” and not those who went from smoking “marijuana to bed.”
But that’s not the funny part. Morgan was strongly adamant that he does not trust “Tallahassee” and felt that Judd was being “slippery” when asked if he agreed. Judd responded, if he were any “slipperier” he’d “have to be an attorney.”
