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Charlotte’s Web fix clears committee stop

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The Senate Regulated Industries took about 90 minutes to do what the Department of Health, growers and investors haven’t been able to do since last August — agree on a regulatory structure allowing the planting of Florida’s first legal marijuana crop. “This is about fulfilling a promise,” said state Sen. Rob Bradley about his glitch bill for a Charlotte’s Web law passed last year but blocked from implementation by lawsuits. “There are simply too many inherent flaws in the system…

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The day that was in the Florida Capitol — March 23

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This day in Florida Politics the Senate had the Capitol to itself while the House traveled back to Tallahassee. While Senate committees considered three separate tax-cut proposals, Gov. Rick Scott kicked off a “Cut My Taxes Week” by setting up a booth in the state Capitol where an average Florida family can calculate its savings from different proposals. The Commerce and Tourism Committee approved state Sen. Dorothy Hukill’s measure to keep alive a sales and use tax exemption for industrial…

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Charlotte’s Web glitch-bill language: More licenses, more products and more diseases authorized

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The fix is in. Earlier today, state Sen. Rob Bradley’s language for a Charlotte’s Web glitch bill was released. The proposal will be addressed in a public meeting Tuesday and increases the number of licenses to grow marijuana to 20, expands the number of illnesses authorized to be treated with a medicinal cannabis product, changes the definition of applicant — providing the legal shield from federal banking regulations growers sought– and lowers the financial requirements to be eligible to participate in growing a nascent…

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Senate’s Charlotte’s Web fix to be released Monday

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Florida Medical Cannabis Association lobbyist Louis Rotundo nailed it last month when he said, “we’re about to smoke them out.” Rotundo commented after the Department of Health released a proposed Charlotte’s Web rule, a product of a negotiated rule making session with stakeholders in a medicinal marijuana industry. “I think the department did as good of a job that can be done with the law as it is written. Any problem now is not with the rule but with the law not getting people where they…

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The week ahead in the Florida Legislature

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This week in Florida Politics we shall seek clarity. By week’s end we will know about the House and Senate’s competing budget proposals, how Rob Bradley intends to solve the Charlotte’s Web mystery and whether service in the Confederate Army is Hall of Fame material. The highlight of a busy week comes Wednesday when both the Senate Appropriations and the House Appropriations committees will work on their respective budget proposals. The House’s opening bid is $76.2 billion and the Senate’s…

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Rob Bradley will take up Charlotte’s Web’s unsolved mystery Tuesday

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State Sen. Rob Bradley is preparing to free the Charlotte’s Web law from a bureaucratic swamp of lawsuits, hearings and workshops. He filed a shell bill, which his Regulated Industries Committee will take up Tuesday. SP 7066 states: “The Legislature intends to revise laws relating to low-THC cannabis. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.” The bill’s language will be available at least 24 hours before Tuesday’s 1:30 p.m. meeting. It will attempt to solve what state…

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Charlotte’s Web hearing scheduled for April 14

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An administrative law judge has scheduled a hearing for April 14 on a rule challenge for the state’s Charlotte’s Web law. Judge Elisabeth W. McArthur has scheduled the hearing for 9:30 a.m at the DeSoto Building in Tallahassee. It is the second legal challenge filed against the Department of Health over proposed regulations to grow marijuana and dispense medicinal cannabis oil. In preparation for the hearing DOH is beefing up its legal team. The Department has informed McArthur that Tallahassee…

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