Jacob OglesApril 10, 2020
4min607
Agriculture Commissioner invoked Charlotte Figi to dis Ron DeSantis over coronavirus gaffe.
Tag: Charlotte’s WebCrowds gather to see Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. (Gabrielle Russon)
Jacob OglesApril 10, 2020
A.G. GancarskiApril 8, 2020
6min981
The Charlotte's Web strain of cannabis is named for her.
Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 27, 2019
5min624
Morgan's influence will leave a lasting legacy in Florida.
Scott PowersDecember 7, 2016
6min558
Behind barbed-wire fences and armed guards, an unmarked, nondescript block building invisible from the road features countless surveillance cameras, a walk-in safe, explosion-proof rooms, and labs stocked with equipment that would make any college chemistry department envious, such as an inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometer. This is not Bruce Knox‘s father’s flower nursery. Not anymore. Welcome to Knox Medical LLC’s facilities […]
A.G. GancarskiNovember 2, 2016
2min417
The eventual fate of 2016’s version of the pro-medical marijuana Amendment 2 is still up in the air, yet one of the state’s primary beneficiaries of the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act of 2014, which has facilitated the slow-motion deployment of Charlotte’s Web to some with qualifying conditions, is giving back to one of the act’s […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterOctober 7, 2016
4min229
An administrative law judge ruled against a North Florida nursery that had lost its bid to get a license to grow and dispense medical marijuana. Administrative law Judge R. Bruce McKibben issued the ruling Friday, saying Loop’s Nursery & Greenhouses “failed to prove by a preponderance of evidence that its application to become a distributing […]
Mitch PerryOctober 3, 2016
8min476
Last Friday, Clearwater Republican state Sen. Jack Latvala announced he would be opposing Amendment 2, the imitative calling for legalizing medical marijuana in the Sunshine State. “Amendment 2 is bad for Florida,” Latvala says in a short video on the Facebook page created for his election campaign. “The constitution is forever,” he says. “Future legislators or judges can’t change it, […]
Larry GriffinJuly 27, 2016
2min182
The City of Orlando has decided that for right now, three medical marijuana dispensaries is enough for the Orlando area. After Gov. Rick Scott passed the Charlotte’s Web law in 2014, which allowed medical marijuana for medical patients when no other treatment would suffice, three dispensaries ended up getting licensed to the area: one on […]
Ryan RayMay 10, 2016
4min243
A panel of state economists estimates a minor expansion in Florida’s fledgling medical marijuana regime could add up to $11.4 million in new tax revenue. The Revenue Estimating Impact Conference met Tuesday for its annual post-Session hearing, where economists from the Legislature, the Governor’s office, and state agencies analyzed the likely fiscal costs and benefits of […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterFebruary 19, 2016
5min1023
Susan Driscoll understands why Floridians are upset. It has been years since the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act was signed into law, but progress has been slow going. There have been lawsuits and administrative challenges; lawmakers have complained about the implementation; and patients still can’t get the medicine they need. “It’s frustrating,” said Driscoll, president […]