Jeb Bush, testing the water for a 2016 Presidential run, has decided to lead with his best shot. Jeb knows that 88% of Florida voters support the legalization of Medical Marijuana so Jeb, probably advised by Karl Rove, has come out swinging against the popular proposal in Florida. Jeb believes that tourism will wither and die in Florida if Medical Marijuana is approved this November in the Sunshine State. Of course NBC is reporting that it's hard to get a hotel room in the mile high city of Denver because the WEED tourists are everywhere. Amazingly, Jeb still declared:
“Florida leaders and citizens have worked for years to make the Sunshine State a world-class location to start or run a business, a family-friendly destination for tourism and a desirable place to raise a family or retire. Allowing large-scale marijuana operations to take root across Florida, under the guise of using it for medicinal purposes, runs counter to all of these efforts. I believe it is the right of states to decide this issue, and I strongly urge Floridians to vote against Amendment 2 this November."
Jeb seems to think nobody would come to Florida anymore and lay on the beach in the sun if weed is being smoked by cancer sufferers. I know Karl Rove does all kinds of polling and he must know what he is doing. It just seems like an odd way to attack weed legalization by saying tourists won't come to paradise because of POT. In reality, NBC is reporting:
"But according to experts at travel websites that track the habits of American vacationers, the two states where voters approved recreational pot each have witnessed an uptick in curious journeyers since those laws were enacted. Seattle host its annual Hempfest — a pot-a-palooza weekend known to attract a quarter million people!
“We've seen that searches for both destinations have spiked dramatically,” said Taylor Cole, who handles public relations for Hotels.com North America.
Year-over-year, there was a 73 percent traffic increase at Hotels.com among shoppers hunting for Denver rooms during the 4/20 festivities — and a 68 percent bump among travelers scouting for Seattle rooms during July, the first month of legal weed sales there, the site reports.
At Hopper.com, an airfare comparison site, there’s been a 10 percent rise in the “interest” among users checking out flights to Spokane, Washington, for September to November of this year when compared to the same months during 2013. There's been a corresponding 3 percent hike for Seattle during the same time frame, said Virginia Nicholson, a data analyst with the site. So, assuming there is a layer of reality to the concept of marijuana tourism, which state is winning over more weed travelers?
There is an early victor.
“Our search data does show that Denver and Colorado have seen more significant search increases in the first seven months of the year,” said Cole of Hotels.com.
From Jan. 1 — when legal weed sales began in Colorado — to July 31, year-over-year room searches at Hotels.com were up by 37 percent for Denver and by 17 percent for all Colorado, reports Hotels.com."
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/legal-pot/marijuana-tourists-are-more-flocking-washington-colorado-n176636
Florida's Libertarian Candidate for Governor Adrian Wyllie supports ending PROHIBITION for both medical and recreational use. Wyllie Libertarians think that pot should be regulated like alcohol. Libertarian Wyllie said, "The only time we had violence over alcohol was during PROHIBITION." Libertarian Wyllie says, about the the two party control in American politics, "I have clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right. It's a duopoly." http://wyllieforgovernor.com/wyllie-memes/
Wyllie simple plan of attack for this November's election, get the Florida Freedom Fighters (3-F) to take back the Sunshine State from the crazy politicians.
If Karl Rove is after the youth vote in 2016 why did he tell Jeb to continue the war on drugs forever and ever?
Jeb needs better advisers than Karl Rove in 2016.
On a 1 to 10 scale of smart moves I give Jeb a - 0 - for this stupidity!
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