Jesse SchecknerMarch 2, 2022
3min0
The legislation aimed to make it easier to keep the THC in ‘healthcare.’
Tag: Ron Watson
Jesse SchecknerMarch 2, 2022
Christine Jordan SextonNovember 20, 2019
6min266
Some patients have more than one qualifying condition.
Jacob OglesApril 3, 2019
7min1050
A 10-percent cap would put Florida in line with New Jersey, for instance.
Ryan RayJuly 7, 2015
5min183
The mood tonight is like an undergraduate’s finals week for a gaggle of commercial farmers hoping to grow the low-THC cannabis product Charlotte’s Web. Wednesday at 5 p.m. marks the deadline to submit applications for the first-ever legal licenses to grow marijuana in Florida. A spokeswoman for the Department of Health – which houses the Office […]
Ryan RayJune 25, 2015
6min185
As local governments in Jacksonville, Broward County and Miami-Dade move to relax their rules governing the use and possession of marijuana – amid an ongoing parallel process in which the Department of Health is now accepting licenses to produce low-THC Charlotte’s Web under a 2013 state law – it’s fair to say that business is, […]
James CallMay 1, 2015
9min220
On Friday morning, lobbyist Ron Watson prepared reports for clients’ whose interests he represents before the Florida Legislature. The curtains close officially on the 2015 Regular Session Friday, but for all intents and purposes, it ended Tuesday when any accord between House and Senate degenerated into insults and the House adjourned without a state budget […]
James CallApril 28, 2015
7min156
Medical marijuana advocates are now looking to 2016. One of the casualties of the budget debate waging between the House and Senate is a glitch bill for last year’s Charlotte’s Web law. SPB 7066 died Tuesday when the House unexpectedly adjourned the 2015 session three days early. “I have never seen more lobbyists with their […]
James CallApril 4, 2015
30min284
Momma bears. It’s taking the momma bears to end the reefer madness. Paige Figi, Holley Moseley and Dawn Wein are among a group of women who worked the Florida Capitol the past year persuading, pressuring and pleading with lawmakers to lift a prohibition on medical marijuana and authorize the use of cannabis products they say will ease their children’s […]
James CallApril 4, 201530min217
Momma bears. It’s taking the momma bears to end the reefer madness. Paige Figi, Holley Moseley and Dawn Wein are among a group of women who worked the Florida Capitol the past year persuading, pressuring and pleading with lawmakers to lift a prohibition on medical marijuana and authorize the use of cannabis products they say will ease their children’s […]
James CallMarch 8, 2015
10min252
This week politics at the state Capitol will be about money and a search for clarity. Legislators will get a better view of the hill they need to climb in building a state budget for the year beginning July 1. The Revenue Estimating Conference meets Tuesday and will count up how much tax money the […]