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A non partisan group made up of supporters and opponents of medical marijuana have released a list of 19 recommendations for lawmakers it Amendment 2 passes. The recommendations include everything from who can be a caregiver to training doctors.

Florida voters will decide if the state will become the 24th to allow the medical use of marijuana. Opposition is heating up.

“The caregiver provision gives legal protection to marijuana dealers” says the No On 2 TV spot. No on 2 is spending 1 point severn million dollars to question the amendments wording.

“So what looks like a safeguard is really a loophole” concludes the ad.

Susan Kelsey, the attorney for No On 2 says “there is no age limit and coupled with that, Amendment two has a very broad confidentiality provision. The identity and all records of patients who are using medical pot have to be kept confidential.”

But a blue ribbon commission has come out with 19 recommendations for lawmakers if the amendment passes. Among them…make sure parents accompany minors to doctor appointments and the caregivers not be felons.

The Blue ribbon commission that came up with these recommendation say there are no loopholes in Amendment 2…they say these are designed to put the meat on the bones of the amendment, if you will.

Jon Mills of Florida for Care says concepts and rights belong int he constitution. Details are for implementing laws. “These details are the implementation of that. So, yeah, you have details like what kind of qualifications a caregiver might have. And they would certainly have background screenings” says Mills.

Other recommendations include creating sworn enforcement officers within the Department of Health,  and prescribing how and where medical marijuana may be grown. All things supporters say don’t belong in the constitution.

No on 2 debuted a second commercial today, questioning the medical value of marijuana, but a recent study from states with medical marijuana laws found fewer people are dying from prescription overdoes.