Lawsuit Filed After Marijuana Legalization Goes Missing Off Florida BallotBy Alice Salles Anne Sallee, an Oakland Park resident and former city commissioner who lives in Broward, Florida, says she was shocked to notice her ballot had arrived in the mail without one of the most discussed amendments of the season. After spending a week trying to get the Broward elections office to listen, she decided to reach out to the Florida branch of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) for help. Amendment 2 would legalize the use of medical marijuana in the Sunshine State, allowing individuals with specific debilitating diseases or comparable debilitating conditions as determined by a licensed state physician to have access to cannabis. But Amendment 2 was nowhere to be found on the ballot sent to Sallee. According to NORMLs attorney, Norm Kent, the removal of the initiative from Sallees ballot may have been deliberate. And if enough ballots are sent without the initiative, voters wont be able to check yes or no on the amendment. [I]ts like when you go to a restaurant, Kent said, somethings not on the menu, you dont order it. In order to get to the bottom of this story, Kent is filing a lawsuit on behalf of NORML and Sallee, hoping to have the issue addressed before election day. We need a judge to act expeditiously and promptly to effectuate a ruling that protects the rights of the voters in Broward County, Kent told reporters. After all, he said, if at least one ballot was sent without Amendment 2, there might be many others being sent out to Florida voters. We have to find out whether theres 100 ballots, 1,000 ballots or 10,000 ballots, Kent added. According to the Sun Sentinel, the Broward County Supervisor of Elections, Dr. Brenda Snipes, told the reporter that [w]hen youre dealing with this much paper and this many people, we may have made a mistake, but I havent heard a lot of people saying, I dont have [Amendment 2 in my ballot] either. She added that the faulty ballots may have been printed as test samples for Oakland Park, claiming that after a local candidate dropped out, Snipes office re-coded the Oakland Park ballot, creating a new test ballot. Only seven of these ballots were allegedly produced, Snipes told reporters, but the office didnt catch on to the error until later. According to Kent, the lawsuit might force Snipes to go before a judge and document every single ballot she has printed. Though the lawsuit was just filed, Kent is urging all local voters using the mail-in-ballot system to check whether Amendment 2 is missing. This article (Lawsuit Filed After Marijuana Legalization Goes Missing Off Florida Ballot) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commonslicense with attribution to Alice Salles and theAntiMedia.org. Anti-Media Radio airs weeknights at 11 pm Eastern/8 pm Pacific. If you spot a typo, please email the error and name of the article to edits@theantimedia.org. Removing control of cannabis from Americans is the goal of the system that uses the illegality of cannabis to distract from the massive cocaine smuggling via Florida into the US. The book by former OSS general Russell S. Bowen, The Immaculate Deception: Bush Crime Family Exposed, 1990, contains answers. Right you are, Doc! Well, thats one way to get the results you want..and it sucks! What isnt explained here is why this Snipes woman didnt feel it necessary to respond to the complainant about the missing amendment when she complained about it. I feel there may be a level of disingenuousness in Snipes explanation. Youd think this would be a non-issue what with all the seasoned citizens living in that state. Perfect weather for growing the perfect plant. Well, what you have in abundence in Florida like weather we have more than made up with the legal cannabis available state wide in Washington state most everywhere. The sky hasnt fallen and the state hasnt gone crazy OR to the druggies. In fact, about the only time you hear about cannabis on the news is when one of the stores, which are a cash only business due to BS federal banking laws where the straight laced always crime free banks (ya right) wont do business with the cannabis businesses, gets robbed. But now that were going on 4 years of legal cannabis even that is a rarity as theres usually plenty of muscle (some armed) providing security keeping the robbers, for the most part, at bay. Anyway legal cannabis is the way to go and if its not legal where you are it should be. And the proof is all the states that have already legalized without any negative effects for the most part so many seemed worried about. Im telling you, the sooner your state legalizes cannabis, the sooner cannabis becomes a non-issue except for the tax money it will be bringing in helping already tight local and state govt budgets Suggested reads. All statements backed up with footnotes. BTW: Move to Colorado and imbibe for the health of it. Its a very simple question, Who owns your body, you or the government ?? Should you be able to decide what to put in your own body, or do you believe the government has the right to decide for you. Government, the left wants to control what you think, the right wants control what you do. Freedom, taking control of yourself, and living with the consequences. If I am not endangering your life, liberty, or property, leave me alone. They wouldnt be doing this is they didnt know that they were going to lose this one. If California legalizes, theres no stopping it. If Massachusetts legalizes, the race will be on the next time the economy takes another dive, since the FED wont be bailing the states out. 