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Greg Steube files low-THC cannabis bill

Published on August 13, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Ryan Ray

Sarasota state Rep. Greg Steube filed a bill Thursday that would expand the state’s low-THC medical cannabis regime. The bill — HB 63 — contains several provisions that would substantially lower some barriers to entry for would-be medical cannabis growers and manufacturers, most notably a lack of limits on the number of manufacturers. Under current law, only five vertically integrated licensees will legally be allowed to manufacture noneuphoric low-THC marijuana derivatives like Charlotte’s Web. They must have the capacity to grow some…

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Dep’t of Health announces new legal pot director

Published on July 23, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Ryan Ray

In the wake of the exit of Patti Nelson — who had served at the helm of the state Department of Health’s nascent Office of Compassionate Use since its inception in 2014 — the agency named a replacement just two days later. Taking over for Nelson will be Christian Bax, who joins the office by way of CBK Consulting, a firm that the lawyer and MBA founded to facilitate medical cannabis programs akin to the one Florida enshrined into law in 2014. Bax…

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Compassionate Use director Patti Nelson leaving DOH

Published on July 20, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Ryan Ray

Patricia “Patti” Nelson, who has led the Department of Health’s Office of Compassionate Use since its inception in 2014, is leaving the department and joining the Executive Office of the Governor, according to a DOH spokesman on Monday. “Patricia Nelson will be rejoining the Governor’s Office of Policy and Budget,” read a response to an inquiry. “The Florida Department of Health is grateful for her service and wishes her well in her new position.” That leaves a key position unfilled…

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Changes to Charlotte’s Web law stalling in Senate

Published on April 21, 2015 in Top Headlines by James Call

The Florida Senate Wednesday is expected to consider a medicinal marijuana bill but it appears efforts to allow higher-levels of THC in cannabis medicine in Florida have stalled. “We’re in a holding pattern,” said Rob Bradley, the sponsor of a glitch bill for last year’s Charlotte’s Web law. SPB 7066 makes several changes to last year’s Compassionate Medicinal Cannabis Act of 2014. The low-THC law has been plagued with legal challenges blocking the sell of cannabis oil to treat seizures…

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