• With polls closing in just under two hours, campaigners with UNITE HERE! are in the final push of their door knocking campaign in Florida for former Vice President Joe Biden.
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• When it comes to the law, language is precise. That’s especially true when it comes to Florida’s medical marijuana laws, which are at the heart of a battle before the state supreme court. Florida voters passed an amendment in 2016 legalizing medical marijuana, and defining who could prescribe it, grow it, and package it. The language voters passed to define treatment centers includes the wording “acquires, cultivates, possesses, processes … transfers, transports, sells, distributes, dispenses, or administers marijuana …” Note the word “or” – which means Florida businesses could serve any of those roles in the new industry. But the law passed by the Florida Legislature in 2017 was different. Instead of “or” they used the word “and,” meaning that, …
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