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Guest AuthorFebruary 20, 2014

It’s time that we shift the medical and judicial focus regarding marijuana. In 2010 there were 38,329 deaths caused by drug overdose: 22,134 from pharmaceutical drugs, 16,651 from pharmaceutical opioid analgesics and zero from marijuana. This year, three initiatives are moving forward in Florida that can help control the quality, quantity and delivery of a […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 30, 2014

Any closed door can be opened. Such is the case of medical marijuana and the State of Florida. Twenty states have legalized medical marijuana in the past few years, while the conservative Florida Legislature ramped up its war against the drug. It is ironic that Florida is known throughout the country as THE destination for […]

Guest AuthorOctober 14, 2013

To say that the political topography of Pasco County is mostly Republican is akin to saying that the sun is mostly hot. Mitt Romney won handily in 2012, by a margin of seven points. In fact, with only two exceptions, a Republican won every elected office in Pasco that year. One of those exceptions to […]

Tag: Gary J. Stein

Gary J. Stein: A medical marijuana bill ‘written in the spirit of the constitutional amendment’

Gary J. Stein: Legislation, a constitutional amendment open door to medical marijuana in Florida

Gary J. Stein: Florida’s Medicaid expansion debate may swing House election