Lawmaker Busted for Drunk Driving Wants to Restrict Medical Marijuana Use
by Carey Wedler
ANTIMEDIA.COM
June 9, 2017
Tallahassee, FL — A Florida lawmaker caught driving drunk just a few months ago voted today to keep smoked medical cannabis illegal in the state. Cary Pigman, a Republican congressman representing the 55th District in Florida came out strongly against allowing smokable marijuana in the bill that passed today in response to voters’ decision last year to allow for medical marijuana.
Amendment 2 was a restrictive medical marijuana proposition that “supported legalizing medical marijuana for individuals with specific debilitating diseases or comparable debilitating conditions as determined by a licensed state physician,” Ballotpedia notes.
The measure passed overwhelmingly in the election, and now lawmakers have hammered out the details. Among them is reportedly the prohibition on smoking marijuana, a form of treatment has been documented to help provide relief a wide range of illnesses and symptoms, including HIV-related complications, neuropathic pain, and chronic pain.
Nevertheless, the drunk-driving lawmaker, who was forced to give up his seat on a House subcommittee on health after he was found guilty, insisted smokable cannabis is a health risk. “Breathing in soot, breathing in ash, carries a definite detriment, which we didn’t want to extend to medical marijuana,” he said, apparently failing to see the irony considering the vast health hazards that come with alcohol, let alone the endangerment it brings others when getting behind the wheel intoxicated.
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