TALLAHASSEE — Saying hemp is poised to be a “multibillion-dollar industry in the state,” Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried on Wednesday appointed the state’s first cannabis czar. Fried, a Democrat elected in November who made increasing access to medical marijuana one of the cornerstones of her campaign, tapped Holly Bell, a former banker, to serve as […]
After a judge ruled in Florigrown’s favor, the state appealed. What’s next? A broad legal battle has marinated in a Florida courthouse for nearly a year, and now the state’s House of Representatives is inserting itself into the proceedings. The House’s recent filing seeks to defend lawmakers’ interpretation of the constitutional amendment that paved the […]
It sounds like the opening for another stoner movie, maybe “Harold and Kumar Go to Heaven.” Giant bundles of marijuana, apparently containing individually wrapped five-kilo bricks, have been washing up on the shores of Florida since the approach of Hurricane Florence last week, possibly from a boat that was either capsized by the storm or […]
At Thursday night's City Council meeting, all but Councilman Charlie Miranda voted to pass the guidelines for medical marijuana facilities that would ...
Since Floridians voted to expand their medical cannabis program last year, state lawmakers have pushed to limit the ways marijuana can be ...
HempStaff, a Florida-based medical marijuana recruiting and training agency continues its Medical Marijuana Dispensary Training courses across the state of Florida this weekend. Each location and date will have two sessions to choose from: 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. or 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. The next class will be Saturday, Aug. 26 in Tampa […]
Florida football players Ventrell Miller and James Robinson were cited for marijuana possession in their on-campus apartment Monday, according to ...
The Florida medical cannabis industry is growing by the day. As a result of Senate Bill 8-A, Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers, or MMTC's, are ...
Dr. Joseph Dorn watched his terminally ill patients suffer and discovered that some of them were illegally using marijuana to alleviate their pain.
Patients seeking medical marijuana will soon have more places to get it in South Florida. The Palm Beach County Commission and the Dania Beach ...
