Florida Sued Over Medical Marijuana Law That Bans Smoking It
Florida is being sued because the state's new medical marijuana law doesn't allow patients to smoke the plant.
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Florida is being sued because the state's new medical marijuana law doesn't allow patients to smoke the plant.
New laws going into effect Saturday include ride-sharing services like Lyft and Uber having to comply with statewide rules and teachers along with students being allowed to express their religious beliefs at public schools.
Health officials have laid out a new process to implement the voter-approved constitutional amendment broadly legalizing medical pot.
The Southeast Cannabis Conference is being held in Fort Lauderdale this weekend – and there are some big names behind the cause.
Florida will have 10 additional marijuana operators within four months, under a medical marijuana proposal approved by lawmakers Friday.
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Medical marijuana is still a hot topic in Tallahassee as state legislators spend their second day of a special session wrangling over money for public schools and economic development.
Florida legislative leaders have struck a deal to put into effect a voter-approved constitutional medical marijuana amendment.
Florida legislative leaders have struck a deal about carrying out a voter-approved constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana for patients with debilitating illnesses.
The Special Session next week will include funding for education and economic development but what about medical marijuana? Not for now.
Health officials laid out a framework for adopting regulations required by a voter-approved medical marijuana amendment.
An administrative law judge Tuesday called for the state to issue two new licenses to medical marijuana operators.
A medical cannabis dispensary in the northern part of the state has been ordered to stop selling a product that can be broken down and made into pot that can be smoked.
Medical marijuana dispensary Trulieve says it is not violating state law by selling cannabis that could potentially be broken down and made into pot that can be smoked.
Once again the discussion of medical marijuana is at the forefront in Florida's capitol.
Orlando attorney John Morgan, who led last year's passage of a medical marijuana constitutional amendment, has joined growing calls for a special session to finalize rules for its implementation.
Former U.S. Rep. turned gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham is calling for the Florida legislature to hold a special session to enact the medical marijuana legalization amendment overwhelmingly passed by Florida voters in 2016.
A bill that details the implementation of medical marijuana in Florida has cleared another hurdle, but time is running out to get it passed.
The state would have more than a dozen pot operators under a proposal overwhelmingly approved by the Florida House on Tuesday.
With the opioid epidemic still raging, doctors are looking at alternatives to addictive prescriptions for treating chronic pain.
A bill headed to the Senate floor would eliminate the 90-day requirement for patients purchasing marijuana on a doctor's recommendation.
A CBS News poll released Thursday morning shows the number of Americans in favor of legalizing marijuana has reached a new high.
Thursday marks cannabis culture's high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather — at 4:20 p.m. — in clouds of smoke on campus quads and when pot shops in legal weed states thank their customers with discounts.
South Florida's second medical marijuana dispensary is now in business.
Florida patients may be able to vape or munch on medical-marijuana products but they almost certainly won't be allowed to light up joints or take bong hits, under a compromise being worked on by House and Senate leaders.
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