Weeding Through Amendment 2 The last time we saw the Florida Right to Medical Marijuana Initiative, otherwise called Amendment 2, was on the November 2014 ballot when, as many of us already know, the initiative was defeated after failing to achieve at least a 60 percent vote in favor of passing the bill. �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Government �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� by Dawn Gresko Prior to the proposal of Amendment 2, Gov. Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 1030, better known as the “Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act of 2014,” which legalized low-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) cannabis, such as the strain called Charlotte’s Web, for medical patients suffering from cancer or “a physical medical condition that chronically produces symptoms of seizures,” such as epilepsy. The law required physician approval and the potential user’s physician had to determine that “no other satisfactory alternative treatment options exist for that patient.” The story of the now-famously narrow medical marijuana law in Florida, dubbed Charlotte’s Web, began many years ago and hundreds of miles away in Colorado, a medical marijuana legal state. In 2011, the Realm of Caring organization, helmed by five brothers who cultivate and breed medical cannabis, began crossbreeding marijuana and hemp to create a strain that would not get people high but would deliver some of the medical advantages of pot. Enter Paige Figi, whose six-year-old daughter Charlotte was diagnosed with Dravet Syndrome, a catastrophic pediatric form of epilepsy. Charlotte had significant cognitive and motor delays, brain damage, and had to be fed through a tube. Approximately one in 100 people suffer from epilepsy, but Charlotte’s struggles were far more severe than the
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