For all legal medical cannabis patients and caregivers, the state requires you renew your Patient/Caregiver ID Card with the Department of Health annually. Your card is valid for one year from date of initial approval. This expiration date is stamped under your address and date of birth on your card. The state recommends you begin…
Note: The following recipe includes the infusion of legal cannabis products. These items may only be created and consumed by a legal patient using the legally purchased products they procured from legal MMTC’s in Florida. Please remember edible cannabis has a different effect than other methods of administration. You should always start low and go slow…
Since seeing our first patients on January 3, we have become the leading practice of cannabis medicine in the state. By putting our patients first, believing wholeheartedly in the medicinal benefits of cannabis, and helping scores of patients obtain a better sense of wellness we have already achieved much more than I ever would have…
In an effort to track patient progress and identify potential treatment issues, at the beginning of the month we send out a survey to patients who are active within our practice. Each full survey is added to the patient’s chart and should we find irregularities we will contact the patient and try to address any…
As responsible clinicians, we have a practical obligation to collect and analyze therapeutic data from our patient base. This data helps us provide a better and more individualized treatment plan for our patients, and also lets us see data from an aggregate view so we can gauge results of a group as a whole. Each…
Congratulations Florida! We are the first state in the south to have a legitimate medical cannabis program. Please note the above usage of the proper scientific term cannabis rather than the racially charged, prohibitionist derived marijuana. The legislation that Governor Rick Scott signed into law last Friday has officially renamed the Office of Compassionate Use and…
The Chron’s Charity Service Foundation of Naples launched a new patient-centric magazine specifically focused on cannabis called Indo Wellness. The following in-depth profile of Dr. Gordon was written by Victor Espinosa and is reprinted with permission. Dr. Barry Gordon of Venice, Florida is blessed with both knowledge and experience when it comes to emergency medicine. He…
Yesterday, May 2nd, the Florida House of Representatives advanced HB1397. Panned by patient advocates nationwide, this proposed legislation thwarts the will of the people by creating layers of bureaucratic oversight of the mandated expansion of the state’s medical cannabis program. Nine representatives voted “no” on the measure, but one dissenting vote was curious. Representative Julio…
When Patrick DeLuca and I conceptualized the idea of beginning a first-of-its-kind cannabis practice in Florida back in November 2016, we knew it wouldn’t be an easy task. The legal hoops we had to jump through our first few months were both maddeningly complex and ridiculously expensive. No matter how unnecessarily difficult our area of…
