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The Florida Supreme Court heard a second round of arguments in a challenge to a state law aimed at implementing a constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana.
Read More »Justices Look Again At High-Stakes Marijuana Case
Marion County School Administrator Caught In Dispute Between Federal And State Marijuana Policy
Board members will determine in their Thursday hearing whether to take the judge’s recommendation to terminate Hickman.
Read More »Gainesville Dispensary Will Begin Selling Cannabis Edibles In October
Curaleaf Medical Marijuana dispensary prepares for release of edible marijuana products in October, which they say will benefit more patients in need of medicinal support.
Read More »Marion County Teacher, Veteran Appeals Termination For Medical Marijuana Use
He uses marijuana for post-traumatic stress disorder and the injuries he sustained on mission Desert Storm.
Read More »Moment That Love, Life Was Lost After Tragic Crash: ‘She Did Not Make It, OK?’
This story reveals new details about what happened that night and in the months since the deadly crash on Jan. 9.
Read More »College Student Accused In Fatal Downtown Crash Blocks Away From Earlier Wreck He Caused
Adam Mandel, 19, of Weston, Fla., was driving as fast as 80 mph on West University Avenue, when he lost control on a Thursday evening in January and crashed his Lexus sports car into a guardrail and hit a utility pole. Mandel’s passenger was his 20-year-old girlfriend, Kassandra Guzman-Ramirez of Weston, who died from her injuries.
Read More »DeSantis Signs Initiatives Bill, Tax Package
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed seven bills into law on April 8, including measures that will place additional restrictions on ballot initiatives and provide sales-tax “holidays” around the start of hurricane season and the upcoming school year.
Read More »Bill To Streamline Life-Saving, Anti-Overdose Drug Naloxone In Schools Failed In Legislature
First-responders carry a powerful, opioid-overdose reversal drug – known as naloxone – that can save lives when injected into a patient or sprayed into his nose. The U.S. surgeon general has urged broader access to the drug to reduce overdose deaths, but the Legislature failed to pass a measure that could have made the drug more widely available in Florida’s schools – despite it being free of charge to schools in many cases.
Read More »Florida Trade Secret Bills Fail For The Third Consecutive Session
The end of the 2020 legislative session spelled the end for attempts to clarify Florida's trade secrets law to give the public greater access to information.
Read More »Florida Supreme Court Signs Off On Amendment Proposal
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously approved a ballot measure that would require future constitutional amendments to be approved by voters twice --- instead of once --- to take effect.
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