him sitting at the dinner table, eating pot roast.
His analysis was blunt: "This s*** works."
Why twiddle our thumbs waiting for the Food
and Drug Administration to approve medi-
cal marijuana? "God's already told me what
works," Morgan said.
God also created the coca plant, Knight
countered, arguing that bringing medical
marijuana to Florida would lead to increased
crime. National banks are hesitant to accept
deposits from marijuana businesses since
possession of the drug remains a federal
crime, which means the vast majority of legal
marijuana transactions are conducted with
cash. Criminals know this and are targeting
dispensaries for burglaries, Knight said. He
read a news story from Newport Beach, CA,
about a dispensary owner being kidnapped,
tortured and castrated. "That can happen
here," he warned.
But U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has
said he will reassure banks the federal gov-
ernment will not prosecute them for taking
legal marijuana money. He told an audience
at the University of Virginia in January that
his office is working with the Department of
the Treasury to come up with appropriate
regulations.
"You don't want just huge amounts of cash
in these places," Holder said, according to
Forbes. "Huge amounts of cash, substantial
amounts of cash just kind of lying around
with no place for it to be appropriately depos-
ited, is something that would worry me, just
from a law enforcement perspective," Holder
added.
Attorney John Morgan in an ad for his Tampa law firm. Image from forthepeople.com
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