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The names of three local men, including prominent trial attorney Fred Levin, were revealed Friday by the Florida Department of Health as investors in companies trying to bring the strain of medical marijuana known as Charlotte's Web to Florida. Levin is an investor in Ray of Hope 4 Florida...

The names of three local men, including prominent trial attorney Fred Levin, were revealed Friday by the Florida Department of Health as investors in companies trying to bring the strain of medical marijuana known as Charlotte's Web to Florida. Levin is an investor in Ray of Hope 4 Florida...

Based in a small office in Key Largo, HempStaff doesn't grow the drug or sell it. Yet it could profit if voters in November approve an amendment to expand the legal uses of medical marijuana. HempStaff is one of 15,000 businesses nationwide that provide services and technology to marijuana...

Based in a small office in Key Largo, HempStaff doesn't grow the drug or sell it. Yet it could profit if voters in November approve an amendment to expand the legal uses of medical marijuana. HempStaff is one of 15,000 businesses nationwide that provide services and technology to marijuana...

Lawyers for the Florida Department of Health have given a Jacksonville nursery until Monday to take action on an attempt to keep secret a list of investors affiliated with a bid to become one of a handful of medical marijuana operations in the state. The move came after wrangling between...

Florida is on the brink of a new industry. Six Florida nurseries have invested millions, betting that commercial cannabis is about to take off. This fall, voters will decide if Florida will join 25 other states that have legalized medical marijuana. Full strength cannabis is legal only as...

Florida is on the brink of a new industry. Six Florida nurseries have invested millions, betting that commercial cannabis is about to take off. This fall, voters will decide if Florida will join 25 other states that have legalized medical marijuana. Full strength cannabis is legal only as...

Rosie Yagielo runs a marijuana business at the southern edge of a state where medical pot isn't available. Based in a small office in Key Largo, HempStaff doesn't grow the drug or sell it. Yet it could profit if voters in November approve an amendment to expand the legal uses of medical...

Rosie Yagielo runs a marijuana business at the southern edge of a state where medical pot isn't available. Based in a small office in Key Largo, HempStaff doesn't grow the drug or sell it. Yet it could profit if voters in November approve an amendment to expand the legal uses of medical...

A political committee spearheading a drive to pass a medical-marijuana ballot initiative raised slightly less than $52,000 from June 1 to June 24, according to a newly filed finance report. Nearly half the money, $25,000, came from the law firm Greenspoon Marder, which has offices in Florida...

A political committee spearheading a drive to pass a medical-marijuana ballot initiative raised slightly less than $52,000 from June 1 to June 24, according to a newly filed finance report. Nearly half the money, $25,000, came from the law firm Greenspoon Marder, which has offices in Florida...

It's interesting how you can find out what's really on someone's mind when they're under pressure. It happened to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, but if you blinked, you may have missed it. But this is something we cannot ignore. During her interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper following...

It's interesting how you can find out what's really on someone's mind when they're under pressure. It happened to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, but if you blinked, you may have missed it. But this is something we cannot ignore. During her interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper following...

Morgan, a self-described "salty-tongued" speaker and a devout Catholic, peppered his 50-minute speech with F-bombs, attacks on the Florida Legislature and a declaration that the future of medical marijuana has reached a "tipping point" in Florida and the nation. "There is no state in the...

Hemp and cannabis research was illegal until 2014 when Congress allowed it in the Farm Bill. A little-noticed provision of the new medical marijuana law in Florida allows state universities to conduct research. That's a first for Florida, but not for other states such as Kentucky, which is leaps...

Everyone knows who defeated medical marijuana in Florida two years ago: casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who single-handedly pumped in millions to pay for scare ads that helped barely keep the amendment below 60 percent approval. But few remember that it was a St. Petersburg-based developer who...

A rematch is shaping up between Orlando attorney John Morgan and Tampa Bay developer Mel Sembler over Amendment 2, a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana in Florida. After Sembler told the Tampa Bay Times that he and his wife, Betty, would raise $10 million or more to defeat the...

Remember that time in 2014 when medical marijuana got a half-million more votes than Gov. Rick Scott but was still defeated? No? Let's recap. Two years ago, Florida's biggest political issue, aside from Scott beating Charlie Crist and his loyal Vornado Air Circulator fan for a second term...

The Cannabis Caucus is headed to South Florida. The National Cannabis Industry Association will host a Florida Cannabis Caucus on April 14 in Miami. The organization's quarterly caucus event will be held at the Marseilles Hotel, and will feature Ben Pollara, campaign manager for the United...

The Florida Legislature has done a terrible job providing people with serious illnesses access to medical marijuana, so it's no wonder that a new poll suggests voters might take the issue out of lawmakers' hands. A poll released this week by St. Leo University found 68.1 percent of respondents...