Casino Magnate Antes Up Millions In Anti-Pot Fight
A Las Vegas casino magnate has contributed another $1.5 million to a political committee fighting a proposed constitutional amendment that would legalize medical marijuana in Florida.
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A Las Vegas casino magnate has contributed another $1.5 million to a political committee fighting a proposed constitutional amendment that would legalize medical marijuana in Florida.
A Jacksonville law firm has created a firestorm in the already heated debate about whether Floridians should allow doctors to order medical marijuana for sick patients.
The battle over Florida's medical marijuana amendment is getting intense. A billionaire casino magnate is putting up more money to defeat the proposal to legalize medical marijuana.
Groups battling over a proposed constitutional amendment that would legalize medical marijuana in the state spent nearly $1.9 million in mid-September on advertising-related costs.
On this week's Facing South Florida, host Jim Defede sits down with two of the bigger players in the medical marijuana initiative.
Almost before the ink was dry, the state's largest nursery is protesting a rule floated by health regulators setting up the framework for Florida's new medical-marijuana industry.
Health regulators have proposed a revised rule which could allow Florida pot dispensers to truck their products to the patients.
Floridians really, really support the legalization of medical marijuana, according to a poll released Monday morning.
It could become Florida's next big cash crop. At least that's what people attending two weekend marijuana conferences are hoping.
With a battle building over a proposed constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana, a coalition of opponents held a news conference Wednesday to warn that the measure is worded too broadly.
Orlando trial lawyer John Morgan said he has pledges of up to $6 million --- not including his own substantial checkbook --- to back a proposed constitutional amendment going before voters in November that would allow doctors to order marijuana for patients with debilitating illnesses.
State health regulators heard an earful from growers, lawyers and lobbyists seeking to rake in some green from Florida's new pot industry during a standing-room-only, rule-making workshop Monday.
Winners of Florida's five, highly sought-after medical marijuana licenses could be selected through lotteries, according to a draft rule released late Wednesday by the Department of Health.
Now that Governor Rick Scott has signed 'Charlotte's Web' into law, interest is growing in the so-called 'Cannabiz.'
Gov. Rick Scott quietly signed a bill Monday legalizing a limited form of medical marijuana known as "Charlotte's Web," even as much of the state's GOP leadership continues battling a constitutional amendment allowing more sweeping use of pot.
Opponents of a proposed constitutional amendment that would legalize medical marijuana launched the "Don't Let Florida Go to Pot" campaign Tuesday, warning that passing the measure would lead to widespread abuse.
A political committee helping spearhead a ballot effort to legalize marijuana in Florida collected $226,734 in contributions in April.
According to a new poll, nearly 9 out of 10 Floridians support the medical use of marijuana.
Gov. Rick Scott is expected to sign a bill that would legalize the use of low-THC marijuana to treat epilepsy and cancer patients.
Gov. Rick Scott said he will sign a medical marijuana bill poised to pass the Florida Senate, after the measure received overwhelming support Thursday from the House as children whose lives hang in the balance looked on.
The Florida house as approved bill that would allow for a strain of low-THC marijuana to be legal in the state.
The use of medical marijuana would be legal in Florida under a bill passed by the Senate.
It's coming down to the wire for Florida legislators in their current session. This week is their final week of their 60-day session and they still have lots of unfinished business, including whether to approve a strain of marijuana for medical use.
When Florida voters go to the polls this November to cast their ballot on the legalization of medical marijuana, the state's Sheriff's Association wants them to vote no.
The volume on the fourth floor outside the House and Senate chambers is reaching a crescendo. Lobbyists are jockeying for positions in front of the chamber doors as lawmakers emerge for quick pow-wows. It's all part of the last-minute frenzy as, in the words of powerful Sen. John Thrasher, "bills are dying."
