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Renewed medical marijuana amendment effort raises $293K in June

Published on July 13, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

A renewed effort to legalize medical marijuana in Florida received a major boost last month, as the People United for Medical Marijuana political committee raised close to $293,000 in June. Of that, nearly $233,000 came from the Orlando law firm headed by attorney John Morgan, according to the state Division of Elections. Morgan has been the public image and foremost moneyman of the legal pot initiative. People United for Medical Marijuana and United for Care are once again collecting signatures and raising money…

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Email insights: This time, medical marijuana fans are ahead of the curve

Published on July 7, 2015 in 2017/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

Supporters of legalized medical marijuana in Florida won’t be making the same mistakes twice. After struggling to collect nearly 700,000 valid voter signatures by the deadline to get Amendment 2 on the ballot in 2014, the campaign to legalize medical marijuana in Florida is starting earlier this time. In an email from Raymer Maguire of United for Care, organizers are “super close” — less than 5,000 petitions away — from having enough valid petitions (the required number is 68,315) to qualify…

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John Morgan writes a ‘big check’ to get medical marijuana amendment 2.0 up and running

Published on June 12, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

John Morgan just wrote a “big check” to get a second medical marijuana ballot initiative off the ground. And a big check it was. $150,000. “I’m going to do whatever it takes to put medical marijuana back to the people of Florida to make it your decision,” Morgan said in a video statement posted on the website for his group, United for Care. Morgan said it won’t be the last check he writes, but implores supporters to write their own…

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Pinellas sheriff wants legislative fix to medical pot, not an amendment

Published on June 11, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri wants the Florida Legislature to figure something out when it comes to medical marijuana. During a Suncoast Tiger Bay luncheon Thursday, marijuana reform was the talk of the day. Gualtieri was asked several times about medical marijuana and once about recreational. He told the group of about 50 Tiger Bay members and guests he was actively supportive of the state’s Charlotte’s Web bill that passed during the 2014 Legislature. Charlotte’s Web is a strain of…

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Editorial roundup: Times looks at state, Trib stays local

Published on June 2, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

As per usual – two papers, two different themes. Tuesday’s editorial roundup in the Times vs. the Trib shows one paper’s focus on local issues and the other’s on state. The Tampa Bay Times, in and editorial published Monday, issued an ambiguous applaud/scolding to state leaders over the Charlotte’s Web medical marijuana law. On one hand, the Times’ editorial board praises the fact that “a noneuphoric strain of medical marijuana could make its way into the marketplace.” That’s because a…

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Final challenge to Florida medical marijuana rule dismissed, licensing could start by summer

Published on May 27, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

After months of legal wrangling and court battles, Florida is closer to allowing production of non-euphoric medical marijuana under the law known as “Charlotte’s Web” passed last year. On Wednesday, a Tallahassee administrative judge rejected the last challenge to the state’s draft rules. Judge David Watkins dismissed the claim by Baywood Nurseries of Apopka, which said the proposed rules on medical marijuana gives an unfair advantage to larger nurseries for the five medical marijuana growing licenses permitted by law. With Watkin’s…

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John Morgan: Hillary Clinton, Democrats ought to ease up on medical marijuana

Published on May 26, 2015 in 2017/Top Headlines by Ryan Ray

If things shake out in the right way, Florida medical malpractice tycoon and Democratic adviser to the stars John Morgan may end up being the only person in America to have both Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton over to his house before the 2016 election cycle is over, writes Betsy Woodruff in the Daily Beast. What he will tell both of them, particularly his fellow co-partisan Clinton, is no surprise to those who know the direction of his recent advocacy, such as it was in 2014.…

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Medical marijuana - page 27

Renewed medical marijuana amendment effort raises $293K in June

Email insights: This time, medical marijuana fans are ahead of the curve

John Morgan writes a ‘big check’ to get medical marijuana amendment 2.0 up and running

Pinellas sheriff wants legislative fix to medical pot, not an amendment

Editorial roundup: Times looks at state, Trib stays local

Final challenge to Florida medical marijuana rule dismissed, licensing could start by summer

John Morgan: Hillary Clinton, Democrats ought to ease up on medical marijuana

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