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Patients seeking medical marijuana will soon have more places to get it in South Florida. The Palm Beach County Commission and the Dania Beach Commission agreed this week to allow medical marijuana dispensaries wherever pharmacies are allowed. "I wish it was around, legalized with a...

Inside a nondescript white-washed office building across from St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa is one of the state's first walk-in clinics for patients seeking medical marijuana. Similar to a walk-in urgent care center, Tetra Health Care is a place where patients can see a licensed doctor about...

More than 71 percent of Florida voters in November agreed marijuana should be used to treat serious illnesses — the highest margin of support among the nine states considering various levels of cannabis legalization last year. Given that kind of public backing, a group trying to legalize...

In a special legislative session June 23, Gov. Rick Scott approved a bill that effectively puts into action a state constitutional amendment approving medical marijuana passed by voters in 2016. The measure expands the list of debilitating conditions that could make patients eligible to receive...

In November, 71-percent of Florida voters approved Amendment 2. Today, more than 18,000 of them carry a medical marijuana card, allowing them to legally purchase and consume cannabis. But perhaps what it doesn't do is just as important. "If you get tested positive for THC in your system...

Once upon a time, hemp was ubiquitous. The "king of fiber-bearing plants" was used in sailcloth, cordage and more. Then "reefer madness" and the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 effectively killed the industry, despite a brief revival during World War II. Since then, the plant's association with...

Tampa's outspoken strip club entrepreneur, Joe Redner, wants to grow his own marijuana plants. So much so that he's filed a lawsuit against the Florida Department of Health, which under current rules bars Floridians from growing cannabis plants for their personal use, even those who are legally...

Over the last five years, there has been considerable traction in two non-traditional approaches to healthcare: implementation of telemedicine, and the prescribing of marijuana to treat some health conditions. But some states are nervous about the two overlapping, choosing to specifically ban...

Knox Medical spent two years jumping through legal, political and regulatory hoops before it opened its first medical-marijuana store in Orlando on June 2. A week later, the state Legislature agreed to expand the number of medical-marijuana operations from seven to 17 by Oct. 3 and allow each...

Orlando trial lawyer John Morgan scored a big win this week as state lawmakers passed a medical marijuana bill, which Gov. Rick Scott plans to sign. Morgan bankrolled two political campaigns to legalize medical pot, finally succeeding in 2016. And though he plans to sue the state over a smoking...

For a moment on Friday, as Florida leaders announced plans for this week's special legislative session, it was believed medical marijuana would be added to the list of contentious issues on tap for resolution. After all, if cooler heads could compromise on the year's biggest fight — money for...

After state lawmakers failed to act, health officials on Thursday laid out a framework for adopting regulations required by a voter-approved constitutional amendment that could make Florida one of the nation's largest medical-marijuana markets. The Florida Department of Health on Thursday...

Tampa Bay is home to a new revolution. Gardening without soil. Not even sand, gravel or liquid. We're talking about growing plants out of thin air. It's called Aeroponics. Yes, it been around for a long time, but a local company in St. Petersburg has mastered growing cannibals using the...

It was late January when, in the beach-famous pulse of South Florida, the mayor of Miami held a town hall for the first task force to reduce opioid addiction in his community. "Laws need to be changed at the state," Carlos Giménez told reporters. "We've had more opioid deaths in the last year...

The Florida Department of Health can move quickly when it wants to. No sooner had News Service of Florida's Dara Kam revealed a medical-marijuana vendor in Quincy was selling a "whole flower" medical cannabis product specifically for use in vaporizers, than the health department slapped a...

As differences over pot shop restrictions burned a medical marijuana bill to ashes in Tallahassee, one of Florida's largest legal cannabis operators courted millions of dollars from new investors and touted a lucrative plan to open dozens of storefronts around the state. A private equity...

While Florida politicians have butted heads over how to regulate the growing medical marijuana industry this year, Tom Murphy and Michael Welch have been busy working behind the scenes to try to ensure their company gets a piece of it. Murphy, 71, and Welch, 79, are two of the founders of...

Florida's medical marijuana bill turned into a real buzz kill. Voters proved to be way more enthusiastic at the idea of medical marijuana than their representatives, who struggled and ultimately failed, to agree on what turned out to be a complicated bill in the just-ended legislative session...

or all their talk about "activist judges," Florida lawmakers just created a pathway for judges to decide what voters intended last November in passing a state constitutional amendment that legalizes medical marijuana for patients with certain diseases. And given the choices left standing at...