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Florida just legalized medical marijuana. Now what?

[su_dropcap style=”flat”]I[/su_dropcap]n what will certainly go down in the books the most memorable election in anyone’s memory, Florida voters returned to the polls this year and overwhelmingly approved that state’s medical marijuana ballot initiative, Amendment 2. While this historic vote was an incredibly important step in reducing the harm …

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Florida Woman Acquitted of Growing Marijuana for Medical Use

A 54 year-old woman was found not-guilty of cultivating marijuana Friday by a circuit court jury in southern Florida, who delivered the verdict despite the woman’s testimony that she had grown the marijuana plants she had been accused of growing. Bridget Kirouac, who told jurors that she suffers …

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More Complaints Over Florida’s Botched Medical Marijuana Implementation

NURSERY ALLEGES IMPROPER DISQUALIFICATION OF APPLICATION FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA LICENSE Tallahassee, Fla. – On December 11, 2015 San Felasco Nurseries, Inc. filed a protest against the Florida Department of Health for “mistakenly disqualifying their application for the medical marijuana license in the Northeast Region of Florida.” According to a press …

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Campaign to Legalize Recreational Marijuana in Florida Fails to Reach Goal

A campaign that was launched earlier this year to legalize and regulate marijuana for recreational purposes in Florida has folded up Shop. Regulate Florida aimed to collect enough petition signatures to get the question of whether or not Florida should allow the legalization and regulation of marijuana like alcohol …

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Will a proposed Broward County decriminalization ordinance fix their huge race problem?

Yet another Florida locality is looking to remove criminal penalties for minor marijuana offenders. Officials in Broward County are considering implementing civil fines for misdemeanor marijuana possession, rather than arrests and criminal charges. County commissioners are scheduled to discuss a proposed ordinance today that would allow law enforcement officers to …

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Florida Cannabis Expo Gets Celeb Keynote Speaker

Floridians who are anxious to stake an early claim in what is predicted to be the country’s second-largest medical marijuana market will have a chance to rub elbows with cannabis industry professionals, medical experts and celebrities alike at a new business expo aimed at cannabusiness hopefuls and medical professionals in …

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This Police Department is Trying to Decriminalize Marijuana (you read it right)

An ordinance proposed by the Miami-Dade Police Department, if passed, would allow officers to issue civil citations that carry a $100 fine for possessing small amounts of marijuana rather than making a physical arrest. Under the new ordinance, a person caught with less than 20 grams of marijuana …