I guess, in the words of that Morgan of Morgan and Morgan attorney guy, they’ll wait for all those “Old Folks” in Florida die in a couple of years. Then conditions will be more favorable?? Of course he was talking about the loss of the Marijuana bill, but I’m sure he feels the same way about Charlie Crist, an employee of his, or legal partner, losing. They invested a lot of $$$$ pushing the bill, figuring that they could draw the marijuana crowd to vote for Crist. I think the voters they expected were too high/stoned at home to get out and vote.
There is a great deal behind what you have said here. First, the TV interview Morgan did was one of a fat, drunkard, trial lawyer consolidator (never goes to court, consolidates other lawyers to rake in “split fees” with them “defending” DUIs,divorce mills, small claims and malpractice). In one sentence he attributed the loss to “old people” who don’t know better (a rather childish attitude of arrogance— after all, an old jazz musician knows nothing about LSD,morphine, heroin and pot— sure), who will die off.
He is delusional. There is a YOUNG group of conservative people coming up who are NOT stoners- a new generation, who are children of the useless stoners and gimme-dats (some of them anyway, who haven’t become gimme-dats themselves). Those who want to be part of the opportunity society. Those who question the medical validity of what these “medical marijuana” pitchers have been pushing- using the internet fact checking.
The most glaring thing, is that in fact- big Tobacco is behind this effort, and if successful they would push out/buy out all of these “medical” growers/sellers. Talking to people in the tobacco industry— and they will tell you how RJ Reynolds in particular is positioned. The two most hated industries, tobacco and big pharma— both have a hand in this. And they hate the Tea Party uniformly.