Infobox State Senator
name=Evelyn J. Lynn
state_senate=Florida
state=Florida
district=7th
term=2003 -
preceded=
succeeded=Incumbent
date of birth=birth date and age|1930|02|02
place of birth=Astoria, New York
date of death=
place of death=
spouse=widow
profession=educator
religion=Methodist
party=Republican Party|
Evelyn J. Lynn is a Republican Party member of the Florida Senate, representing the 7th District since 2003. Her district includes parts of Clay County, Marion County, Putnam County, and Volusia County, Florida. Previously she was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1995 through 2002.
Lynn received her Doctorate from the University of Florida, and resides in Ormond Beach, Florida.
Drug policy
alvia divinorum
In March 2008 it was reported that Florida state Senator Evelyn Lynn and Representative Mary Brandenburg had proposed bills to make possession of "Salvia divinorum" a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
Senator Evelyn Lynn, who was on a committee to study the Salvia bill, said salvia should be criminalized. "I'd rather be at the front edge of preventing the dangers of the drug than waiting until we are the 40th or more," she said.[Gresko 2008.] ]Brandenburg's House bill number is HB 1363. Lynn's Senate bill is SB340. There is also SB1612. All bills propose including "Salvia divinorum" & Salvinorin A on Florida's Schedule I list of controlled substances. [http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=38384&BillText=salvia&HouseChamber=H&SessionId=57&]
Opponents of extremely prohibitive Salvia restrictions argue that such reactions are largely due to an inherent prejudice and a particular cultural bias rather than any actual balance of evidence, pointing out inconsistencies in attitudes toward other more toxic and addictive drugs such as alcohol and nicotine. [#noteAlcohol| [i] [Nutt et al. 2007.] While not objecting to some form of regulatory legal control, in particular with regard to the sale to minors or sale of enhanced high-strength extracts, most Salvia proponents otherwise argue against stricter legislation. [#noteSalvia| [ii] [Siebert (Legal status).]
Notes
- ^ The worldwide number of alcohol related deaths is calculated at over 2,000 people per day, [Lopez 2005, Table 2.] in the US the number is over 300 deaths per day. [NIAAA 2001.]
- ^ Those advocating consideration of Salvia divinorum's potential for beneficial use in a modern context argue that more could be learned from Mazatec culture, where Salvia is not really associated with notions of drug taking at all and it is rather considered as a spiritual sacrament. In light of this it is argued that Salvia divinorum could be better understood more positively as an entheogen rather than pejoratively as a hallucinogen. [Blosser (Mazatec Lessons).]
Citations
References
*cite web
last = Blosser
first = Brett
title = Lessons in The Use of Mazatec Psychoactive Plants
publisher = The Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center
url = http://www.sagewisdom.org/lessons.html
accessdate = 2007-10-19
*cite news
author = Gresko, Jessica
title = Is Salvia the Next Marijuana?
url = http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iL07qPrDwTnT98gXva3EWcl0sxXAD8VBBEM82
publisher = The Associated Press
date = 2008-03-11 Florida.
*cite journal
author = Lopez, Alan D
year = 2005
month = Apr
title = The evolution of the Global Burden of Disease framework for disease, injury and risk factor quantification: developing the evidence base for national, regional and global public health action
url = http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/1/1/5
journal = Globalization and Health
volume = 1
issue = 5
publisher = BioMed Central Ltd
doi = 10.1186/1744-8603-1-5
pmid = 15847690
pages = 5 - [http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/1/1/5/table/T2 Table 2] . Global burden of disease and injury attributable to selected risk factors, 1990.
*cite web
author = MiSP
year = 2006
title = Follow the Money
url = http://www.followthemoney.org/Institute/index.phtml
work = [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?si=20069&c=435815 Florida/Lynn] ,
publisher = The National Institute on Money in State Politics
accessdate=2008-03-11
*cite web
author = NIAAA
year = 2001
month = Aug
title = Number of deaths and age-adjusted death rates per 100,000 population for categories of alcohol-related (A-R) mortality, United States and States, 1979-96.
work = Database Resources / Statistical Tables
publisher = National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
url = http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/Resources/DatabaseResources/QuickFacts/Other/armort01.htm
accessdate=2007-10-20
*Citation
last1=Nutt
first1=David
first2=Leslie
last2=King
first3=William
last3=Saulsbury
first4=Colin
last4=Blakemore
year=2007
date=Mar 2007
title=Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse
journal=The Lancet
volume=369
issue=9566
pages=1047-1053
url=http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673607604644/abstract
doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60464-4
accessdate=2007-03-23
*cite web
last=Siebert
first=Daniel
title=The Legal Status of Salvia divinorum
publisher=The Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center
url=http://www.sagewisdom.org/legalstatus.html
accessdate=2007-03-04
External links
* [http://www.flsenate.gov/legislators/s07 Florida State Legislature - Senator Evelyn J. Lynn] official government website
* [http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=24267 Project Vote Smart - Senator Evelyn J. Lynn (FL)] profile
*"Follow the Money" - Evelyn J Lynn
** [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?si=20069&c=435815 2006] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?si=20049&c=404234 2004] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?si=20029&c=19844 2002] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?si=20009&c=349677 2000] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?si=19989&c=349233 1998] campaign contributions
