Jim RosicaMarch 18, 2019
7min715
"The will of the voters is upheld."
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5min1359
The bill next heads to Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Jim RosicaMarch 11, 2019
6min834
The Senate version is "language that we did agree to in the House."
Jim RosicaMarch 7, 2019
5min931
The bill now goes to the House.
Jim RosicaFebruary 4, 201910min907
Some lawmakers were visibly uncomfortable with the idea of expressly allowing marijuana smoking.
Jim RosicaSeptember 14, 2018
4min1344
The state constitution “creates a procedural right to seek treatment with smokable marijuana,” according to a new filing in an appeal by patients seeking to light up medicinal cannabis. Attorney Jon Mills filed a 48-page answer brief late Thursday, in response to the state’s 57-page brief last month arguing that the smoking of medical marijuana […]
Jim RosicaJuly 3, 2018
5min1531
An appellate court delivered the equivalent of a judicial smackdown Tuesday following its decision last month to reinstate a delay on the effect of a lower court’s ruling that medical marijuana can be smoked in Florida. A unanimous three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal (DCA) issued a 5-page order calling Circuit Judge Karen Gievers‘ ruling to allow patients […]
Jim RosicaMay 26, 2018
8min1393
Quoting George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, a Florida judge has ruled that the state’s ban on smoking medical marijuana is unconstitutional. In a 22-page order released Friday, Circuit Judge Karen Gievers said that the ban on smoking is “invalid because it conflicts” with the constitutional amendment on medicinal cannabis approved by statewide voters in 2016. A one-day […]
Jim RosicaMay 16, 2018
9min481
It’s now up to a Tallahassee judge whether the Legislature overstepped when it outlawed the smoking of medical marijuana. Attorneys for the state and patients who want to smoke the drug squared off in a Leon County courtroom Wednesday before Circuit Judge Karen Gievers. She didn’t immediately rule after the close of evidence, but could issue a decision […]
Jim RosicaApril 20, 2018
4min1088
A Tallahassee judge has dismissed one of the plaintiffs in John Morgan‘s legal effort to overturn the state’s ban on smoking medical marijuana. Roberto Pickering of Leon County, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, was one of three patients with a chronic illness who want to smoke medicinal cannabis under a state constitutional amendment passed in 2016. In an […]