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WEBVTT GROWS MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN ORANGE COUNTY. BOB. BO YEAH, THIS HELP WANTED SIGN IS OUT HERE. BACKERS SAY THIS INDUSTRY IS GETTING READY TO BOOM BIG TIME HERE IN FLORIDA. AT OTHERS SAY IT GIVES THEM HOPE. KELLY STUTTS VOTED FOR AMENDMENT 2. SHE HAS MS AND HOPES MEDICAL MARIJUANA CAN BECOME AN ALTERNATIVE THERAPY AS H DISEASE AND ITS PAINFUL SIDE EFFECTS ADVANCE. KELLY STUTTS: IT REALLY DOES GIVE ME HOPE I WON'T HAVE ANY DEPENDENCY ON MEDICATIONS FOR THE LONG TERM. BOB: NOW THAT FLORIDIANS HAV PASSED AMENDMENT 2, THE MAN WHO SPENT ALMOST $10 MILLION TO BANKROLL IT SAYS HE EXPECTS THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA INDUSTRY GROW FAST. JOHN MORGAN: IT'S LIKE RAISING THE SPEED LIMIT FROM FIVE MILES AN HOUR TO 65 MILES AN HOUR. IT'S GONNA BE THAT DRAMATIC. BOB: WE ASKED MORGAN AND HIS TEAM WHEN THEY EXPECT MEDICAL MARIJUANA TO BECOME WIDELY AVAILABLE. BY EARLY NEXT YEAR, HIS TEAM EXPECTS THE LEGISLATURE TO DRAW UP GUIDELINES ON WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW MEDICAL MARIJUANA CAN BE DISPENSED. BY LATE NEXT YEAR, DISPENSARIES IN SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS WILL START POPPING UP AND 2018, THE PRODUCT WILL BECOME WIDELY AVAILABLE. JOHN MORGAN: THERE'S A WORLD OUT THERE IN FLORIDA, WE ESTIMATE 400,000 TO 500,000 REALLY SICK PEOPLE WHO'LL BENEFIT FROM DAY ONE. BOB: AMENDMENT TWO OPPONENTS VOW TO BATTLE ON. NOW THAT AMENDMENT 2 HAS PASSED, THE GROUP'S SPOKESWOMAN TOLD WESH TWO, THE FIGHT MOVES TO THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE. THE GROUP PLANS TO ENCOURAGE LEGISLATORS TO TIGHTLY DEFINE MEDICAL CONDITIONS NECESSARY TO RECEIVE MEDICAL MARIJUANA. WE ASKED MORGAN WHETHER HE HAS ANY INTENTION OF OPENING A DISPENSARY OR INVESTING IN ONE OF HIS OWN. HE SAYS HE DOES NOT.

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Kelly Stutts voted in favor of Amendment 2. The Orange County mom has multiple sclerosis and hopes to use medical marijuana as an alternative therapy, as her disease and its painful side effects progress. "It really does give me hope," Stutts said. "I won’t have any dependency on medications for the long term." In a Wednesday morning news conference, John Morgan, the Orlando attorney who said he spent $8.9 million to bring Amendment 2 back to a vote, said there is a legion of Floridians like Stutts waiting for the relief medical marijuana will bring. "There’s a world out there in Florida of 400,000 to 500,000 really, really sick people who’ll benefit from day one," he said. Morgan said he has no plans to open up his own dispensary, but sees the industry on the brink of ramping up in a big way. "It’s like raising the speed limit from five miles an hour to 65 miles an hour. It’s going to be that dramatic," Morgan told reporters assembled in his law firm’s mock courtroom. Vote No on 2 is the group hoping to put the breaks on the speedy rise of Medical Marijuana. In a press release, the group said, "Now that Amendment 2 has passed, the fight moves on to the Florida Legislature." Amendment 2 opponents said they will encourage legislators to put strict limits on THC levels in medical marijuana, tightly define "debilitating medical conditions" required to qualify for it and give local communities the right to limit and restrict what it calls, "pot shops." Morgan said he’s confident the bipartisan mandate of more than 70 percent of Floridians in favor of Amendment 2 should be proof enough for legislators not to try to delay its implementation. If they do, Morgan said, "They’ll suffer at the ballot box." Morgan expects the jobs and tax revenue created by the demand for medical marijuana will be an "economic boom" to Florida. "I just want to have the quality of life I haven’t been able to have for a while," Stutts said. Early next year, Morgan said he expects the Legislature to draw up laws when, where and how medical marijuana is dispensed. By late next year his team said they expect to see dispensaries start to be established statewide. By this timeline they expect marijuana to become widely available some time in 2018.