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Florida added the most new jobs in 2018 with 9,068. More

It took the DoH more than a year to issue rules on medical marijuana after voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2016, and they still haven’t issued rules on edibles, the second most popular form of medical marijuana. More

Monday, February 25, 2019 - On Sunday, Trulieve, a Florida's largest marijuana producer gave away more than $5,000 worth of cannabis oil to medical marijuana patients in Orlando. Fifty "Sunshine Kush Trupods" containing one gram of cannabis oil were distributed along with a free vaporizer at the Florida Cannabis Coalition Green Carpet Networking event on Sunday.  Each pod is valued at $94 and the vaporizers retail for $35 each. This isn't the first time Trulieve [...]

555 Cannabis Gummies: 5 Ingredients, 5 Milligrams, 5 Easy Steps     Aside form all the other advantages of oral administration of cannabis, there are two big reasons to make gummies like this:   1. Accurately dosing your medicine in 5mg increments   2. They can be kept in the mouth longer than cannabis distillate and tincture, for better oral absorption   What I decided to make were small gummy bears with a 1:1 THC:CBD […] More

The title of this article may be as misleading as some of the cannabis marketing out there.   Different strains have been one of the hottest selling points of the cannabis industry. There are strains for people who want to maintain a more functional, creative high, and others for those looking to veg-out and relax at the end of the grueling day.   But a new study is challenging the conventional wisdom. It shows that […] More

Marijuana is apparently booming among, well, boomers. Specifically, marijuana use is becoming more prevalent among Americans over 50, according to a new study in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.   The study analyzed survey responses from more than 17,000 adults over 50 and found that roughly 9% of American adults ages 50 to 64 used marijuana in the past year. Around 3% of adults over age 65 tried marijuana in that same period. There [...]

Singer Jimmy Buffett and billionaire William “Beau” Wrigley Jr. are getting behind a U.S. marijuana startup, joining a scrum of companies betting on the increasingly crowded cannabis industry.   Mr. Buffett, whose hits like “Margaritaville” evoke a beach-bum lifestyle, will license his Coral Reefer brand to Surterra Holdings Inc. for a line of cannabis products including vape pens, gel caps, edibles and lotions.   The deal comes a month after Mr. Wrigley, 54 years old, […] More

Surterra Wellness has a new Chair, William Wrigley Jr. II - yes, that Wrigley. The scion of a family that made a fortune in chewing gum, Wrigley's, is moving into pot.   William Wrigley Jr. II, who helped orchestrate the sale of his family’s business to Mars Inc. in 2008, led a $65 million investment round for Surterra Wellness, a medical cannabis startup in Georgia with licenses to operate in Florida and Texas. The funding [...]

John Morgan on Tuesday said he’s “going to look at starting a fund” toward an initiative to legalize marijuana, including recreational use, on the 2020 ballot. He has previously has been on the record supporting marijuana legalization. His latest tweets move him further in terms of personally promising a political solution.   The Orlando attorney and businessman, who was behind the 2016 constitutional amendment allowing medical marijuana in the state, was tweeting in response to [...]

FDA Approves First Medicine Made from the Cannabis Sativa PlantThe DEA is expected to reclassify CBD within 90-days. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the country’s first drug derived from the cannabis sativa plant (marijuana medicine), a medication that treats two rare and devastating forms of epilepsy.   The drug, GW Pharmaceuticals’ Epidiolex, is made of cannabidiol, or CBD, a component of marijuana that does not give users a high. It is given [...]