The push is on to make the use of cannabis for medical purposes legal in Florida. It seems that every few years, vocal marijuana interest groups seek a way to normalize their drug of choice to the rest of us. Maybe they forget the terrible human toll exacted by drug abuse.

We have to look no further than our own friends and families, addiction treatment centers and local hospitals to see the tragic consequences these substances visit upon human beings. The misery would only be compounded should medical marijuana be allowed.

Smoked marijuana is not medicine. Pot smoke contains more carcinogens than cigarette smoke and is simply not healthy for you. In short, inhaling toxic chemicals and carcinogens from the burning of a crude weed is not recommended by any reputable medical authority. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration routinely tests new drugs according to a rigorous protocol to prove their safety before they are allowed to be sold to the public as medicine. Marijuana has passed no such test.

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