Legalize marijuana amendment should be kept off the ballot, Florida GOP...
Attorney General Ashley Moody and the state House and Senate want the Florida Supreme Court to reject a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow recreational marijuana use, arguing the...
View ArticleRecreational pot ballot proposal fizzles, but new pot bills filed in Tallahassee
Voters will not vote to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida this year. After a brief but expensive campaign, the Make it Legal Florida political committee ended its effort Monday to get...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana Employee Protection Act: What the Future Could Hold for...
With the passing of the 2016 constitutional amendment and the Legislature’s enacting of statutes implementing the voters’ will, hundreds of thousands of Floridians have become lawful medical marijuana...
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Florida Legislature not moving to address marijuana legislation this session
As the Legislature reaches the halfway point of the 2020 session, no committee has yet to hear any of the wide range of bills filed to address a list of issues in Florida’s medical marijuana program....
View ArticleFlorida measure caps THC levels at 10 percent for underage medical marijuana...
House Speaker Jose Oliva said in early February that capping the THC content of medical marijuana at 10 percent was among his priorities for the 2020 legislative session, although no measure proposing...
View ArticleTHC cap for medical marijuana patients under 21 dies in Florida House
In the waning hours of the 2020 legislative session, a contentious provision that would have established a potency cap of 10% THC for medical marijuana patients under 21 has died. After being stripped...
View ArticleMedical marijuana industry booming in Florida during COVID-19 pandemic
Since Florida confirmed its first COVID-19 cases early last month, people are getting more things delivered, from groceries to food, to mixed cocktails to go. And more and more Floridians are having...
View ArticleRecreational pot supporters in Florida fire back on new law
With a hearing next week in the Florida Supreme Court, backers of a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow people to use recreational marijuana are disputing arguments by the state Senate...
View ArticleDid Florida lawmakers break the law in regulating medical marijuana?
In a case that could have important implications for the medical-marijuana industry, Florida Supreme Court justices Wednesday waded into a battle about whether the state has properly carried out a 2016...
View ArticleColumbia Care Accused of Fraudulently Taking Lucrative License
The complaint accuses New York-based Columbia Care of tortious interference with contract, unjust enrichment, civil conspiracy, aiding and abetting fraud and aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary...
View ArticleFlorida Supreme Court asks for a rare second round of arguments on medical...
In a highly unusual move, the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a second round of arguments in a battle about whether the state has properly carried out a 2016 constitutional amendment that...
View ArticleFlorida quietly publishes medical marijuana edibles rules
In 2015, a small group of Department of Health employees including Florida’s chief medical marijuana regulator, Christian Bax, and then-surgeon general Celeste Philip hopped on a plane to Denver. They...
View ArticleEdibles could boost Florida’s medical marijuana sales by $200M annually
The addition of edibles to Florida’s medical marijuana market could boost a projected near-$1 billion in 2020 cannabis sales by 20 percent, or $200 million, industry analysts said. The Florida Office...
View ArticleFlorida marijuana patients able to gobble up pot products
Just one week after health officials signed off on guidelines for edible pot products, Florida’s largest medical marijuana operator on Wednesday began selling THC-infused brownies, cookies, chocolates...
View ArticlePopular California marijuana company gets Florida license, prepared to open...
A California-based cannabis company known for its celebrity partnerships, colorful marketing and crowd-drawing interiors is headed to Florida. COOKIES, headed up by Bay-area rapper Gilbert Anthony...
View ArticleMedical marijuana and CBD sales rise sharply during COVID-19 pandemic
Florida is seeing a surge in sales of medical marijuana and CBD hemp products as more people turn to them to treat their anxiety, insomnia and pain during the COVID-19 pandemic. Voters in 2016...
View ArticleWhat is the future of legal marijuana in Florida?
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to decriminalize marijuana. Most Democrats supported the bill that would enact that change. Most Republicans did not. The bill is unlikely to gain...
View ArticleLegalize marijuana campaigns in Florida move ahead. But will politicians back...
The momentum is building for marijuana legalization across the country. But will Florida leaders join in? Voters in states as varied as South Dakota, Arizona and New Jersey approved ballot measures...
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Looking To The Future – Florida’s Emergency Edible Rules Provide An...
by Edd Gaus and Matt Bernstein Nearly four years after Florida voters legalized medical marijuana, in August, the state’s Department of Health’s Office of Medical Marijuana Use published emergency...
View ArticleFlorida Democrats File Marijuana Related Legislation In Advance Of Session
Florida legalized medical marijuana in 2016. Since then, state lawmakers have tried to make changes. This year is no different. Proposals for full legalization and one providing employee protections...
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