The eventual fate of 2016s version of the pro-medical marijuana Amendment 2 is still up in the air, yet one of the states primary beneficiaries of the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act of 2014, which has facilitated the slow-motion deployment of Charlottes Web to some with qualifying conditions, is giving back to one of the acts primary architects.
Miamis Costa Nursery Farms, one of just five authorized growers of the high-CBD strain, gave Sen. Rob Bradleys political committee, Working for Floridas Families, $10,000 on Oct. 28.
All told, the nursery has given the committee $50,000 since Aug. 2015, as part of an aggressive pattern of donations to committees of high-profile pols running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Bradley, in discussing the slow rollout of medical cannabis, said he was extremely frustrated in January.
One frustration Bradley has is rooted in the herbs classification as a Schedule 1 narcotic.
We have failed, as a society, to research cannabis. There was a long period when research wasnt done, Bradley said.
With Amendment 2 poised to change the game on medical cannabis in Florida, one can interpret the Costa Farms donation to Bradley as expressive of a desire to protect a unique and very valuable position in the marketplace, as the cannabis industry changes statewide.
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