Articles tagged with "Florida"

The Carol Jenkins Barnett Family Trust donated $800,000 in mid-July to a group campaigning to kill Florida’s proposed medical cannabis amendment.

Trulieve, the approved organization in northwest Florida, is set to open a dispensary in Tallahassee on Tuesday, one week after being given dispensing authorization by Florida’s health department.

The legislature gave limited approval to MMJ in 2014, with many expecting it to be available early in 2015. The process, though, got bogged down by delays.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s cannabis antipathy is evidenced in word, deed, and voting record. And that could cost her at the polls.

Having a staunch prohibitionist underwrite the GOP, and thereby amass influence over the party’s nominee, policies, and direction, does not bode well for legalization.

More than two years after being approved by Florida’s Legislature, medical marijuana is expected to be available in the state by the end of next week.

Arizona advocates are fighting to keep a legalization measure on the ballot, Hawaii dispensaries are in a holding pattern, and Uruguay just crowned its cannabis champions.

Operators say it’s the start of new business they hope will bring high-quality, and formerly unavailable, medicine to patients who need it the most.

Police in jurisdictions across the country rely on the tests despite findings that they often lead to wrongful convictions.

In the wake of Sunday’s tragic shooting rampage at a popular gay night club in Orlando, an anti-cannabis group saw an opportunity to score political points.