Pass the Cathy Jordan Bill to Decriminalize Medical Marijuana in Florida

I am a chronic pain sufferer, an disabled RN and a Clinical Social Worker. I know first hand and have worked with many people struggling with the agony and life destroying misery of chronic pain or unrelenting nausea and the life threatening effects of loss of appetite leading to starvation. In many instance cannabis has been a life saving medicine. The crime is in depriving suffering and even dying citizens of this nature made, God given, medicine. Cannabis, used responsibly, permits chronic pain suffers release from the torment of a mind consumed by pain and allows us to attend to enjoyable, creative and productive activities without mind numbing intoxication and with awareness and reasonable judgement intact. Protect our most vulnerable citizens and our children by regulation. Provide purity of product with licensing of growers and dispensaries. Boost our states economy with taxation. Take marijuana out of the hands of criminals and incentive away from Mexican drug cartels, who rely on US consumer demand to keep them in business. Reduce the dangerous and addictive use of Oxycodone and Hydrocodone byproviding an effective and safer alterative to alleviate the impact of severe pain.