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Tampa Bay Times finally arrives at the kratom party

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Somebody has to be first, right? Last month, Florida Politics reported on the surge of kratom, a plant-based product used as a homeopathic medicine that has begun to concern Florida authorities. Traditionally, kratom leaves — an herb indigenous to Thailand and Malaysia — are chewed to treat a variety of ailments: reducing pain, an anti-diarrhea agent, and to reduce dependence on opiates. Kratom is also thought to give users energy and decrease symptoms of opiate withdrawal, as well as (allegedly) extending…

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The end for SaintPetersBlog

Ever since I acquired the rights to the perfect domain for my efforts — FloridaPolitics.com — I knew that one

Jeb Bush jumps into retail politics of Iowa’s caucuses

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Since announcing on Facebook his plan to explore running for president, Jeb Bush has courted high-dollar donors in private rooms and luxury resorts, and delivered weighty speeches in hotel ballrooms and city clubs. This weekend, he was at a Pizza Ranch. The former Florida governor arrived in Cedar Rapids behind schedule, a sign as strong as any that he is, in fact, running for president. Looking a bit disheveled, with his open-collared shirt coming untucked, Bush took questions for more…

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Mitch Perry Report for 3.9.15 — Let’s not talk about climate change in Florida

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President Obama has been lambasted by many for his administration’s refusal to address the terrorist threat around the globe as “Islamic terrorism.” “We are not at war with Islam,” the President said last month at the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism last month. “We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.” Nevertheless, critics say that the failure to specify who the U.S. and the rest of the West is at war with has deleteriously affected his…

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Charlotte’s Web rivals slug it out in the press

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Jon Moyle, an attorney for Holly Moseley, has just fired a shot across the bow of blogger Jacob Engels and Sunshine State News (SSN). Moyle issued a strongly worded missive to the managing editor of the conservative media outlet regarding a column attacking Moseley, who is executive director of Charlotte’s Web advocacy group Realm of Care. Writing in SSN, Engels charged last week that Moseley, who also sits on a Charlotte’s Web rulemaking committee, maintains an inappropriate business relationship with Charlotte’s Web developer Joel Stanley and that Moseley has…

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Former Rick Scott general counsel Pete Antonacci returns to lobbying

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Pete Antonacci, former general counsel to Gov. Rick Scott, is back in the lobbying game just weeks after leaving the EOG. In a press release, GrayRobinson announced that Antonacci would be rejoining the firm where he worked from 2000 until 2012, when he was appointed to an opening as state attorney in Palm Beach County. Then, when that office was filled by Dave Aronberg in the November 2012 elections, Antonacci was tapped to head up Scott’s in-house legal team. “We are honored Pete chose to return to GrayRobinson,” said…

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Good read from Politico — Jeb in the ‘glades

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Amid a great deal of noise currently being made about the environment in Florida – from Amendment 1’s sweeping mandates on land and water preservation funding to reports that Gov. Rick Scott has outlawed any official discussion about climate change — one player not getting much burn in that arena these days is Jeb Bush. That’s strange, writes Michael Grunwald in POLITICO, because it was under Governor Bush that Florida took on the largest-scale conservation effort in American history, in South Florida’s Everglades. Wetlands were…

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FFBP video calls for common sense, convenience in repealing alcohol separation law

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Floridians for Fair Business Practices (FFBP) released a new video today arguing two reasons Florida should repeal its “outdated” Prohibition-era separation laws: convenience and common sense. “Convenience” is the second in a series of FFBP digital ads now available on YouTube. Florida is one of the 20 states with a separation law between liquor stores and other retailers; other states allow ‘co-mingling” of product, offering convenience to customers and less regulation for businesses. “For me as a mom, it’s the…

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