I’m Just a Party Guy

Day 11
Remaining Committees 7
Remaining Days to hear the bill 36
Remaining funding 19

Most of the time when you hear that you think “Let the good times roll.” Not in the Capital. Here, a party guy means until the majority of his or her peers are on board, no matter what the individual thinks, they won’t vote their conscience.

That has to be the most frustrating part of the work up here. In those one on one meeting you learn lots of things. I now know three Representatives that behind closed doors admit to having used cannabis. Regardless, they are not going to buck the leadership.

Last night I was just too exhausted to post a blog entry. All day at the Capital, dinner with a trusted advisor and several hours of research and prep work later, there was simply no more energy left.

Yesterday was a good day. Nearly 500 people reached out to their lawmakers. Florida lawmakers spent yesterday bragging about making Florida the premiere state for Veterans. We will welcome you with open arms as long as the medicine you use to treat your phantom limb pain or PTSD isn’t cannabis. Never fear, if you break the law by smoking cannabis for your PTSD we’ve got a program for that too.

As a movement we have got to get the Republican leadership involved in our cause. We have to get the Cancer Society, the Alzheimer’s Society and other important stakeholder on our side. We aren’t done in Tallahassee, but neither is the real work of getting support groups, researchers and medical associations to sign off.