Articles tagged with "Florida"

Illinois expands qualifying conditions and hits new sales record, New Mexico still fumbling with patient delays, and and a Japanese MMJ advocate dies while awaiting trial.

Florida opens its first (limited) dispensary, Germany and Italy consider MMJ expansion, and a Maryland lawmaker denies a cannabis conflict of interest.

The Carol Jenkins Barnett Family Trust donated $800,000 in mid-July to a group campaigning to kill Florida’s proposed medical cannabis amendment.

Trulieve, the approved organization in northwest Florida, is set to open a dispensary in Tallahassee on Tuesday, one week after being given dispensing authorization by Florida’s health department.

The legislature gave limited approval to MMJ in 2014, with many expecting it to be available early in 2015. The process, though, got bogged down by delays.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s cannabis antipathy is evidenced in word, deed, and voting record. And that could cost her at the polls.

Having a staunch prohibitionist underwrite the GOP, and thereby amass influence over the party’s nominee, policies, and direction, does not bode well for legalization.

More than two years after being approved by Florida’s Legislature, medical marijuana is expected to be available in the state by the end of next week.

Arizona advocates are fighting to keep a legalization measure on the ballot, Hawaii dispensaries are in a holding pattern, and Uruguay just crowned its cannabis champions.

Operators say it’s the start of new business they hope will bring high-quality, and formerly unavailable, medicine to patients who need it the most.