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Investors and growers await Charlotte’s Web ruling

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It’s a waiting game. Transcripts from a two-day hearing on the state’s medicinal marijuana law will be posted Monday. Later this week, briefs on a motion to dismiss the suit blocking implementation of the law authorizing low-THC cannabis as medicine are due in court. It’s been almost 11 months since Gov. Rick Scott signed the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act of 2014 but the law allowing epileptic children and cancer patients to use cannabis oil has been tied up in court. “It’s frustrating…

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Capitol Preview: Money, press skits and the search for clarity

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This week politics at the state Capitol will be about money and a search for clarity. Legislators will get a better view of the hill they need to climb in building a state budget for the year beginning July 1. The Revenue Estimating Conference meets Tuesday and will count up how much tax money the state has collected so far and project how much more money will roll in by the end of June. These are the numbers lawmakers will use when…

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Delayed medical marijuana draft rule gets new public hearing

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Don Clifford’s vision is getting closer to becoming a reality. Clifford is leading a group of investors who have put up $7 million to build the world’s largest indoor marijuana cultivation facility.  Monday he was in Tallahassee for a hearing on a proposed rule for Florida’s Charlotte Web law. Regulators and stakeholders have been meeting since August trying to agree to a regulatory structure for the legal cultivation of marijuana and the processing of oil for a medicinal product. “I…

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