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Florida seizes $95 million in marijuana plants in 2014, new report says

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Florida’s war on marijuana cultivation was an unqualified success last year, according to the annual report from the Domestic Marijuana Eradication (DME) Program. In 2014, sheriff’s deputies and police officers statewide busted a combined 582 marijuana grow houses and outdoor operations, says Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, who announced the findings on Tuesday. “Our partnership with local law enforcement helps keep marijuana out of our communities, making them safer for the 20 million residents who call Florida home,” Putnam adds. As…

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Jimmy Buffett to headline Everglades rally in Tallahassee

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Jimmy Buffett will headline an Everglades Coalition rally Tuesday at the Old Capitol. Buffett’s performance will highlight a noon rally for the third annual Everglades Day of Action. The coalition has been promoting the event as an opportunity to lobby lawmakers. It has sent out “Buy the Land! Send Water South! Save our Everglades & Estuaries!” flyers as a call to action for people to be in Tallahassee Tuesday. The coalition wants to talk to lawmakers about Amendment 1 money. The state has an option…

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This week ahead at the Florida Capitol — April 6-12

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This week at the state Capitol the session enters its circus stage. We’ll entertain ourselves with perennial issues, while leaders figure out how to resolve a budget dispute. A gorilla called LIP and an elephant known as Medicaid expansion are occupying the room used for budget negotiations. And while the House and Senate maneuver behind the scene to prevent the two from disrupting the legislative session by blocking passage of a balanced budget, we have the emotional issue of water, the…

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Epic battle brewing at Capitol as session appears headed to overtime

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Now we have a session — a battle of wills and philosophies in the building of a state budget. The Senate wants to talk. And in the House, the talk is about war. Both chambers have passed a state budget for next year. If you look at the bottom lines the difference is about $4.2 billion. More than numbers separate the two. The chambers may be located in the same Capitol and are controlled by the same party but the…

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‘Momma bears’ roam the Florida Capitol searching for medical marijuana for their cubs

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Momma bears. It’s taking the momma bears to end the reefer madness. Paige Figi, Holley Moseley and Dawn Wein are among a group of women who worked the Florida Capitol the past year persuading, pressuring and pleading with lawmakers to lift a prohibition on medical marijuana and authorize the use of cannabis products they say will ease their children’s suffering and, in some cases, potentially save lives. When they showed up at the Capitol it was to put an exclamation point on the generation-long…

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One challenge to Charlotte’s Web tossed, two more still pending

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A challenge to a proposed regulatory structure for the state’s medicinal marijuana law has been dismissed. Judge Elizabeth W. McArthur ruled Thursday the attorneys for a 4-year-old Jacksonville girl failed to prove their client is a “qualified patient” under the Compassionate Medicinal Cannabis Act of 2014 and therefore lacks standing as an affected party to block the proposed rule. The ruling is here. It was handed down in a case filed on behalf of a Daliah Barnhardt; you can read a…

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The day that was at the Florida Capitol — April 2

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To understand this day at the state capitol one needs to take a long view of a 60-day Legislative Session. Think of a production of a play – the Florida Legislature spent the first half of a session putting all the pieces in place for one heck of a show. The climax will come either in a couple of weeks with the House and Senate resolving the differences in their proposed state budgets and end the 60-day session on time…

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