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With House adjourning, United for Care says its going to 2016 ballot

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The Florida House has adjourned sine die, meaning it is abandoning the legislative session three days early and leaving a host of unresolved issues on the table. Among those issues is medical marijuana, which has been left dead for 2015. “Today the people we elected to represent us in Tallahassee literally abdicated their responsibility to Floridians. The House of Representatives decided to simply quit work, three days before the end of session, and with that, medical marijuana legislation is dead in Tallahassee,”…

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Today on Context Florida: Pot and 2016, existing projects, financial literacy and online voter registration

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Today on Context Florida: Medical marijuana amendment could sway 2016 presidential election, says former Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp. If the Florida Legislature fails to pass a medical marijuana bill this session the issue is almost certain to resurface as a proposed constitutional amendment. However, it is widely believed that in a presidential election cycle (when Democrats in Florida turn out by 4-6 percent more than in non-presidential election cycles) a medical marijuana amendment will pass. The emails are puzzling. The subject…

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Jeff Kottkamp: Medical marijuana amendment could sway 2016 presidential election

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If the Florida Legislature fails to pass a medical marijuana bill this session the issue is almost certain to resurface as a proposed constitutional amendment in 2016. A similar amendment narrowly failed in 2014. However, it is widely believed that in a presidential election cycle (when Democrats in Florida turn out by 4-6 percent more than in non-presidential election cycles) a medical marijuana amendment will pass. The real question may not be whether a medical marijuana amendment will pass (recent…

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Email insights: For medical marijuana legalziation, there’s always 2016

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When it comes to legalizing medical marijuana, it may once again rest in the hands of Florida voters. With only days left in the regular 2015 legislative session, a new email from United for Care says legislators are seemingly satisfied with running out the clock on comprehensive medical marijuana laws. The legislative session ends on May 1, though there is likely to be a Special Session to hammer out the state budget. “We had high hopes that our leaders would act…

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Jeff Brandes on higher levels of THC: wait until next year

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Word had been spreading through the Capitol this week the attempt to broaden Florida’s medicinal marijuana law had hit a roadblock. Monday when the Senate Fiscal Policy Committee considered a Right to Try Act, allowing terminally ill patients to use experimental drugs and procedures, no attempt was made to include marijuana in the proposal. The sponsor is Sen. Jeff Brandes, one of the Senate supporters of lifting prohibitions on the use of marijuana as medicine. He explained Tuesday that he…

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Important week ahead for medical marijuana advocates

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Florida is poised to take a significant step in making medicinal cannabis available to people who need it. This week, decisions by lawmakers at the Florida Capitol and an administrative court judge could determine when and how. Frustrated by legal challenges preventing implementation of the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act of 2014, lawmakers are pursuing a legislative fix allowing doctors to treat a select group of patients with low-THC cannabis oil. Patient advocates see SPB 7066, by state Sen. Rob Bradley, as an opportunity…

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Five minutes with Matt Gaetz, talking FDA lies and being on the back 9 with medicinal marijuana

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Growers may want to start planning to plant cannabis seeds. Whether the authorization will come under the Compassionate Medicinal Cannabis Act of 2014, or SPB 7066, which is moving in the Senate or under an amended bill is still unclear. Rep. Matt Gaetz, however, said Thursday that Florida “is on the back 9” in clearing the legal hurdles for a medicinal marijuana industry. Wednesday when the House approved the Right to Try Act, a bill allowing terminally ill patients to…

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