Mel Sembler begins fundraising effort to kill (Florida) medical marijuana initiative

[steve2470]

http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/mel-sembler-begins-fundraising-effort-to-kill-medical-marijuana-initiative/2274311

With Jeb Bush out of the race, Mel Sembler has another 2016 focus: Defeating Florida’s medical marijuana ballot initiative.

Sembler tells The Buzz he and his wife, Betty, plan to raise at least $10 million, exceeding their successful 2014 effort that took in $7.5 million.

A presidential election will get Democrats, and young voters in general, to the polls and that favors the pro-marijuana side. Polling shows the measure clearing the needed 60 percent threshold.

Sembler said the growing financial boon that is pot is another hurdle. “It’s always a challenge, particularly when there’s a major profit on the other side and there’s no profit on our side.

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It's really important that people vote for this and get their friends and families to do so also. It lost last time.

[RKP5637]

1. Yeah, great, let's put people through more pain and suffering, it's the Florida way! I have

some friends living in Florida that have to take pain medications the rest of their lives to survive the endless pain. What Florida makes them go through makes them look like druggies. They hate to even pickup their prescriptions at the pharmacy.

[mercuryblues]

2. Please

Floridians get out the vote and kick a millionaire republican to the curb.

Of course Sembler is willing to fight this. He makes his money off youth detention "boot camps"

The Trouble with Troubled Teen Programs

The state of Florida tortured 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson to death for trespassing. The teen had been sentenced to probation in 2005 for taking a joy ride in a Jeep Cherokee that his cousins stole from his grandmother. Later that year, he crossed the grounds of a school on his way to visit a friend, a violation of his probation. His parents were given a choice between sending him to boot camp and sending him to juvenile detention. They chose boot camp, believing, as many Americans do, that “tough love” was more likely to rehabilitate him than prison.

Less than three hours after his admission to Florida’s Bay County Sheriff’s Boot Camp on January 5, 2006, Anderson was no longer breathing. He was taken to a hospital, where he was declared dead early the next morning.

A video recorded by the camp shows up to 10 of the sheriff’s “drill instructors” punching, kicking, slamming to the ground, and dragging the limp body of the unresisting adolescent. Anderson had reported difficulty breathing while running the last of 16 required laps on a track, a complaint that was interpreted as defiance. When he stopped breathing entirely, this too was seen as a ruse.

http://reason.com/archives/2006/12/28/the-trouble-with-troubled-teen