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• Florida’s chief financial officer is asking incoming Attorney General William Barr to provide guidance on medical marijuana banking.
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• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing sweeping changes to the state’s medical marijuana system – including an end to the ban on smoking medical marijuana.
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• After 12 nursing home residents died from heat exposure during power outages from Hurricane Irma, Florida lawmakers required nursing homes and assisted living facilities have generators that can run the air condititioner for four days.
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• Why do some people not respond to exercise? A new $170 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health will attempt to answer that question.
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• Florida could soon allow sterile needle exchanges across the state.
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• The Town of Eatonville has denied a disability pension for a Pulse first responder with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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• Tom “Bull” Hill is walking from Key West to Tallahassee to try and change state laws for fire fighters with cancer. He started with one backpack and 87 patches of Florida firefighters who died from cancer. He now has three backpacks and the ashes of three firefighters who died – and will likely have a fourth backpack by the time he leaves Central Florida.
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• The Florida Department of Health will begin offering a drug next year to help prevent the spread of HIV.
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• Floridians who didn’t buy health insurance through Obamacare by the deadline last week may still be able to enroll.
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• There have been 56 cases of Mumps since January, more than the last five years combined. Florida has been averaging about six cases a year previously, which makes 2017 the worst year for mumps since the 1990s.
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