Medical marijuana group expects big petition drive soon
Get ready for John Morgan's Traveling Marijuana Medicine Show 2.0.
United For Care, which last year put a failed constitutional amendment proposal on the November election ballot, expects to begin its main petition push in a matter of weeks to get a new proposal to voters in November 2016.
The organization, chaired by Orlando lawyer Morgan, already has a few volunteers pushing petitions. Yet it has raised little money so far for what would have to be a multimillion-dollar effort to get the issue on the ballot.
Still, it has resources from the failed 2014 campaign, including thousands of now-experienced, impassioned volunteers, ballot language that already has passed legal muster and Morgan's checkbook.
"We'll make an announcement at some point here shortly," said Ben Pollara, the campaign's manager. "I'm going back and forth with Morgan. But I would expect that to launch sometime in June."
That would put the organization...
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