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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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Charlotte’s Web at session’s halftime, new issues bloom while families wait

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A Charlotte’s Web fix cleared its second Senate committee this week while drawing fire from patient advocates and black farmers for failing to increase permissible THC levels and discriminatory licensing requirements. State Sen. Rob Bradley is asking his colleagues to keep the bill moving while he continues discussions with stakeholders. Patient advocates’ concerns about the state’s inability to implement a medicinal marijuana law now includes the fact that there is no House bill addressing the problems in the law that has drawn…

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The day that was in Florida politics — March 31

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This day at the state Capitol lawmakers continue to clear their desks of items before getting down to serious budget work. They dealt with the contentious issues of marijuana, abortion and fracking before having to deal with the $4.2 billion really contentious differences in the spending plans they are developing. State Sen. Garrett Richter’s fracking proposal drew guffaws from environmentalists in the audience when it was presented as a regulatory plan for an industry already active in the state. The…

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Charlotte’s Web fix advances

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State Sen. Rob Bradley was the man in the arena at Tuesday’s Health Policy Committee meeting. He had to beat back challenges from two factions wanting changes in his SB 7066, a Charlotte’s Web fix (he prefers not to call it a glitch bill) and address complaints from stakeholders wanting an end to the bickering between regulators and growers over rules getting medicinal cannabis oil to the market. “We need to bring this to a close. Give us a regulatory…

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The day that was at the Florida Capitol — March 30

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The day at the state Capitol began dark Monday. As we approach the mid-point of the 60 days of the legislative session, apparently the grind is starting to get to people. Someone forgot to turn on the lights this morning in the hallway leading to the Senate pressroom. It was eerie walking a usually bustling, noisy corridor in the subdued quiet and darkness of a Monday morning. Sort of like serving school detention and being freed after the janitors had…

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Charlotte’s Web glitch bill scheduled for hearing

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Growers and patient advocates used court challenges to force the Legislature to revisit a medicinal marijuana law approved last session. Tuesday they get another chance at convincing lawmakers to increase the allowable level of THC in medicinal oil authorized for use in Florida by the Compassionate Medicinal Cannabis Act of 2014. A Charlotte’s Web fix approved without an amendment last week by one Senate panel is on Tuesday’s agenda of a Health Policy Committee meeting. SPB 7066 addresses the concerns many believe…

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The week ahead at the Florida Capitol

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This week at the Florida Capitol battle lines will be formally drawn for the 2015 state budget debate. Both the House and Senate will hold floor sessions to discuss their respective budgets. Each chamber could approve a state spending plan for next year by week’s end, and given that they are presently separated by $4.2 billion the two are poised to deliver to the other a bureaucratic slap-across- the-face challenge to a duel. The differences in the spending plans can…

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