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Baywood scores quick victories in Charlotte’s Web rule battle

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State Sen. Rob Bradley may want to consider performing some CPR on SPB 7066. Many speculated the legislative fix for last year’s Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act of 2014 was dead when Bradley said it was in a “holding pattern.” The comment came after the Department of Health prevailed in a series of legal challenges blocking its plan to implement the low-THC law. The court victories created “less and less momentum” for a legislative fix, Bradley explained. Well, Thursday morning a…

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Five minutes with Matt Gaetz, talking FDA lies and being on the back 9 with medicinal marijuana

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Growers may want to start planning to plant cannabis seeds. Whether the authorization will come under the Compassionate Medicinal Cannabis Act of 2014, or SPB 7066, which is moving in the Senate or under an amended bill is still unclear. Rep. Matt Gaetz, however, said Thursday that Florida “is on the back 9” in clearing the legal hurdles for a medicinal marijuana industry. Wednesday when the House approved the Right to Try Act, a bill allowing terminally ill patients to…

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Lawmaker advises dying patients to smoke pot if it helps

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The House unanimously passed a bill Thursday that would let people use experimental drugs — but not marijuana — if a doctor tells them they have less than a year to live. The “Right To Try Act” will only apply to drugs that have gone through the first phase of federal testing, though several lawmakers are still hoping marijuana will be included in the legislation if it eventually passes the full Legislature. One Republican lawmaker made it clear that even…

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Charlotte’s Web glitch bill pulled from Senate floor, rewrite is underway

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A significant rewrite is coming to the Charlotte’s Web glitch bill, according to a variety of sources. Tuesday morning, SPB 7066 sponsor state Sen. Rob Bradley pulled the proposal from the Senate floor after lawmakers filed seven amendments late Monday. Lawmakers and stakeholders say the move gives them more time to continue to work on refining the Bradley proposal. They want a higher limit on the permissible level of THC in the medicine and fewer regulations on who can grow medicinal marijuana…

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Senate Rules committee approves Charlotte’s Web fix

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Licenses to grow and dispense medicinal cannabis under last year’s “Charlotte’s Web” law may be coming soon. The Department of Health would award licenses for medicinal marijuana 75 days after a Charlotte’s Web glitch bill becomes law, according to SPB 7066, a proposal approved Thursday by the Senate Rules Committee. Rules had been SPB 7066’s last scheduled committee stop. “The purpose of this bill is straightforward and simple,” said sponsor state Sen. Rob Bradley. “It is to fulfill a promise…

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Five minutes with Jeff Brandes on the Charlotte’s Web ‘glitch’ bill

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State Sen. Jeff Brandes sees an opportunity to expand the low-THC Charlotte’s Web glitch bill now moving through the Legislature. SPB 7066, up in the Rules Committee Thursday, increases the number of licenses to cultivate medicinal marijuana but restricts the illnesses treated and strains of marijuana doctors are authorized to order for their patients. Brandes sponsored SB 528, which would leave many of the decisions about the strain of marijuana to use, when to use it and how to use…

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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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