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Recreational Cannabis Won’t be legalized in Florida Any Time Soon

Gary SteinJune 17, 2021

There is just no pleasing some Justices. Today’s Supreme Court ruling could spell the end for Regulate Florida, the Adult-Use ballot initiative to Regulate Cannabis like alcohol was an effort that started in 2015 when Sensible Florida wrote the l... Read More...

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Florida Supreme Court Smashes Florigrown and the hopes of small cannabis businesses.

Gary SteinMay 28, 2021

Imagine if Nabisco had to grow and process all their own ingredients, make, and package their cookies and sell them in a Nabisco-only store, which is only in the state where the wheat was grown for the flour. That is what a vertically integrated MMT... Read More...

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Florida Supreme Court kills cannabis legalization ballot proposal

Gary SteinApril 23, 2021

It was the fourth quarter of 2019, with a petition deadline to get 760,000 signatures looming at the end of that quarter. Med Men sponsored and introduced the Make It Legal Florida ballot measure. When it hit the 76000-signature threshold, it went t... Read More...

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Bill That Caps THC Potency in Medical Cannabis is Now Dead

Gary SteinApril 20, 2021

Patients, Advocates and MMTC’s probably gave out a collective sigh of relief this week. The House bill to cap the THC level in medical cannabis flower was left off the agenda of its last committee before heading to the House floor, making it essenti... Read More...

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Florida’s Cannabis Industry is Booming and this Florida Lawmaker Wants to Kill That

Gary SteinMarch 16, 2021

It seems that Florida’s Medical Cannabis program has defied the odds. It has grown despite all attempts at over-regulation and the lack of a free market. It is a medical program that failed to issue a new license application since its inception. ... Read More...

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Florida Legislators Want to Limit THC to 10%

Gary SteinMarch 4, 2021

For the third year running since the medical Cannabis program finally got started in 2018, the Tallahassee rumor mill hadx been passing around the idea that there may be an effort to cap THC in flower to 10%, Then, on the very last day that bill... Read More...

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Many Cannabis Companies Are Fighting to Keep Homegrown Cannabis Illegal

Canna ChronicleDecember 15, 2020

Shouldn't home grown cannabis be legal? That is the question facing today’s consumers of cannabis and cannabis-based products, whether it be for personal or medicinal use. With the incremental rise in the number of states making it legal to grow ... Read More...

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House Passes Historic Bill to Decriminalize Cannabis

Canna ChronicleDecember 4, 2020

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to federally legalize Cannabis in a historic vote on Friday. It’s the day that cannabis reform advocates have been building toward for years—a full floor vote to end prohibition once and for all i... Read More...

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Florida’s Medical Cannabis Industry Gets Permission to Sell Edible Products

Canna ChronicleAugust 27, 2020

The Florida Department of Health gave the state’s medical marijuana industry permission to sell edible cannabis products this week. The rules were published by the FDOH's Office of Medical Marijuana Use (OMMU) on Wednesday. The state’s licens... Read More...

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If you live in America, owning a Marijuana farm may get a lot easier soon

Canna ChronicleNovember 5, 2019

How’s this for a topic of conversation at the dinner table this holiday season: Did you know we can all invest in a weed farm? Aunt Karen will shoot you a disapproving look, your cousin Phil in his second year of business school will start askin... Read More...

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Cresco Labs acquires Columbia Care in Mega-merger

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