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Medical marijuana supporters and activists are looking ahead to 2017 when medical pot will be expanded in Florida, but the full legalization and implementation of the drug may still be months away. Patients who qualify for the drug should essentially be able to begin receiving their...

Tallahassee, Fla. – With the state's pot industry poised to explode, Florida health officials have agreed to issue another medical marijuana license - the state's seventh- to a Central Florida nursery that lost out to a competitor by a fraction of a percentage point last fall. The Department...

Tallahassee, Fla. - CHT Medical, is the fifth distributing organization in Florida to receive authorization to process and dispense medical marijuana. Florida Department of Health spokeswoman Sarah Revell said CHT Medical, which is a subsidiary of Chestnut Hill Tree Farm in Alachua County...

The first of two growers and dispensers of medical marijuana in Alachua County is getting ready to open in January as a state law approved by voters earlier this year takes effect. CHT Medical, a subsidiary of Chestnut Hill Tree Farm in Alachua, announced Wednesday it has received...

Melbourne - The Eau Gallie-based Florida Cannabis Action Network hopes to place a constitutional amendment on the November 2018 ballot that would legalize marijuana in Florida for adults age 21 and older. Florida CAN's political action committee, Floridians for Freedom, has collected roughly...

At last week's Senate Health Policy Committee workshop on medical marijuana, much of the conversation centered on the question of whether the passage of Amendment 2 necessitated an expansion of the number of licenses to cultivate and sell medical marijuana in Florida. I participated in the...

Tallahassee, Fla. - As questions loom into how the medical marijuana industry will be regulated in Florida, we're taking you behind the scenes of how cannabis is cultivated, grown and extracted for oils to treat patients who qualify for it. Surterra Therapeutics is one of six companies...

The right way to put the new constitutional amendment on medical marijuana into effect is to "treat (it) like medicine," supporters said Tuesday. The Senate Health Policy committee held its first workshop for the 2017 Legislative Session on medical cannabis implementation. "The states...

Q: When will medical marijuana be available in Florida, and who will be able to get it? A: Now that we're a month removed from such a hotly contested presidential election, it's easy to forget that there's at least one thing the majority of Florida voters agreed upon: Medical marijuana makes...

Tallahassee, Fla. - Florida voters spoke loud and clear on medical marijuana when they approved it with 71 percent of the vote. Now that Amendment 2 passed and expanded medical marijuana will be allowed in the state, how will law enforcement handle it? The Florida Sheriff's Association, a...

Rich and Kim Muszynski know when their 5-year-old daughter, Abby, is about to have a grand mal seizure because her pupils enlarge, and she'll seem to fixate at something in the distance that only she can see. Then it starts. Abby's extremities shake. She gasps for air. By the time she...

On Election Day, Floridians overwhelmingly voted in favor of Amendment 2, a bill that expands the use of medical marijuana for patients with debilitating diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, epilepsy, cancer and other conditions. According to some legal experts, Florida's legalization of medical...

With establishment lobbyists now representing it, the medical marijuana cause appears to have become–grab your pearls–respectable. Florida for Care, the nonprofit organization that is advocating for "well-regulated" medicinal pot in the state, has hired Brecht Heuchan and The Mayernick Group...

Colorado and California may be ground zero for medical marijuana, but Florida could quickly catch up. A new report from New Frontier Data with market data provided by Arcview Market Research projects that Florida's market will grow to $1.6 billion by 2020 at a compound annual growth rate of...

Attention politicians who oppose medical marijuana: Florida voters supported the issue more than they supported most of you in November. The medical-marijuana group Florida for Care wanted to drive that message home on Tuesday by releasing an analysis showing the breadth of popularity for the...

A new precinct-by-precinct analysis, commissioned by Florida for Care and completed by TLE Analytics, shows the breadth of support for medical marijuana across the state of Florida. Amendment 2 passed with over the required 60% support in every single Congressional and Florida Senate district...

Florida is on track to log more than $1 billion in medical marijuana sales by 2019, according to an industry report released Tuesday. The estimates are good news for Florida's budding medical cannabis industry, fresh off a major ballot box win last month. By 2020, the report predicts...

While over 70 percent of Florida voters approved constitutional Amendment 2 on Nov. 8 to legalize medicinal marijuana, the economic impact of the measure will remain hazy for at least months if not years The modification to the state's constitution officially doesn't take hold until Jan. 3. But...

Melbourne — Back in November 1995, Brevard County officials refused to issue a permit for a Hemp Awareness Festival at the Wickham Park Pavilion, triggering a lawsuit. What's more, organizers switched the two-day event from a festival into a political protest - and three cannabis activists...

While over 70 percent of Florida voters approved constitutional Amendment 2 on Nov. 8 to legalize medicinal marijuana, the economic impact of the measure will remain hazy for at least months if not years The modification to the state's constitution officially doesn't take hold until Jan. 3...