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The Immorality of Illegality

I know an emergency when I see one. It’s what I’ve studied and practiced my entire professional life, being the emeritus 35-year Emergency Medicine specialist that I am. I have always spoken to the “specialty of time” concept. In emergency medicine the average shift contains innumerable amounts of problems I was tasked to solve. Recently,…

Office of Compassionate Use Website Language Changes

From our legal staff at Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick this morning: As predicted, the Office of Compassionate Use has updated the FAQ section of its webpage.  Questions 1  through 9 now specifically address the issues with Amendment 2 that have been the subject of recent speculation and confusion. Unfortunately (though not surprisingly), the “answers” to…

Our First Look At Amendment 2’s Proposed Rules

Today a Notice of Development of Rulemaking titled Rule No. 64-4.012 Medical Marijuana for Debilitating Conditions was published on the Florida Administrative Register. This is our first look at some of the initial regulation the state will use when implementing Amendment 2’s rules. The state Board of Health has also announced 5 public rule development…

Statement on OCU Director’s Comments On January 11, 2017

Ending weeks of silence on the state implementation of Amendment 2, Office Of Compassionate Use Director Christian Bax spoke to reporters after testifying at the House Health Quality Subcommittee today in Tallahassee. “Should any patient establish a relationship with a physician for 90 days, the 90 days is a restriction on the timeline for which…

Clearing The Confusion On Issue 2

Over the course of the past few weeks since we officially announced our practice, there has been much speculation about exactly how Florida will implement the Constitutional amendment that 71.3% of voters passed back in November. The legislators in Tallahassee are tasked with building the legal framework of the state’s expansion of the existing medical…