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It’s been a long time coming, but Coral Springs will finally have its first Medical Marijuana dispensary —- just not for a while. Just weeks after the election, the commission voted not to allow medical marijuana dispensaries in the city. In 2018, the late Mayor Skip Campbell and then Commissioner Dan Daley’s views on medical marijuana changed; however, they were unable to overturn the moratorium as Commissioners Carter, Cimaglia, and Vignola voted to extend it.… Read More »Dispensary Finally Coming to Coral Springs

Since recreational weed went on sale in Illinois three weeks ago, long lines have formed outside dispensaries, stores have established buying limits and some have run out of product.  All that was expected, based on what’s happened as other states legalized cannabis. But there’s also been a less anticipated result: More people want medical marijuana cards. More than 2,570 people applied for medical cards between Jan. 1, when recreational sales started, and Jan. 17, according… Read More »Legalizing Recreational Leads to Increase in Medical Marijuana Patients

That’s over 2.8 Million eights. Medical cannabis patients in Florida have embraced the addition of smokable products to their purchasing options, with more than 22,000 pounds of the product sold in less than six months. By comparison, that figure is more than three times the quantity of all medical marijuana sold in Ohio during the first 12 months of sales in that state. Florida lawmakers repealed the state’s ban on sales of smokable medical marijuana in March… Read More »Floridians Went Through 22,000 Pounds of Marijuana Flower in Just Six Months

Drs. Lawrence Loh and Jasleen Grewal of the University of Toronto are calling on doctors to advise people against making their own edibles or using illicit products, over fears they may contain too much weed; individuals could be poisoned by pesticide residues; or accidentally consume other drugs, such as narcotics, that illicit products could be contaminated with.  Doctors Loh and Grewal are also concerned that some people may be unaware that it can take longer for the… Read More »DOCTORS WARN ABOUT MARIJUANA EDIBLES: ‘DON’T MAKE YOUR OWN WITH ILLICIT PRODUCTS’

To treat ‘medical’ and ‘recreational’ marijuana differently is to ignore our failing mental health. Medical: (Adj) relating to the science of medicine, or to the treatment of illness and injuries. People have used cannabis for thousands of years for its healing properties, both physical and mental. Yet in just the past hundred years or so we have been conditioned to believe the term “medical” only applies when sanctioned by a governing authority – like the… Read More »There is No Difference Between Medical & Recreational Cannabis Use