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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who loudly opposed a medical marijuana measure that appeared on the 2014 ballot, is staying on the sidelines this time around.

Bondi said she is still opposes the effort to legalize medical marijuana, but the state's top legal officer is remaining silent on whether the Florida Supreme Court should block the latest version of the ballot initiative.

The Supreme Court is currently reviewing the proposed amendment ahead of next year's elections. The court must decide whether the ballot initiative is misleading and whether it complies with single-subject requirements. 

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Susan Humphreys likes to say she lives a strange life.

Picture frames are glued to the walls of her Bear home. The refrigerator has a lock.

The precautions were for her son, Scott, who was diagnosed with autism and was extremely aggressive. Scott also was diagnosed with Pica, a persistent eating condition causing people to almost unconsciously eat non-food items such as nails and dirt

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PLAINVILLE Conn. (WTNH) — A Plainville man claims discrimination after being told his medical marijuana was to blame for his counseling sessions ending.

Michael Purcell uses marijuana as medication. He is one of the 5,357 Connecticut residents who have been given state permission to legally use marijuana as a medication.

His severe arthritis led him to try painkillers and other medication. The post traumatic stress associated with the pain got him a doctor’s permission to use pot.

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After two votes this week, the state is set to start investing extra marijuana tax money in social goods like schools, scholarships, and drug abuse prevention, trying to make good on its promise that legalizing cannabis would benefit all Coloradans.

Coloradans were feeling generous last week.

Two thirds voted in favor of Proposition BB, which allowed the state to hold on to all money raised through marijuana taxes, after Colorado became the first in the nation to legalize and tax recreational use, in 2012.

State law mandates that voter-approved taxes, like the one on marijuana, be returned to citizens if revenue is higher than predicted in the first year. This year, the overflow would have given each Coloradan roughly $8. Instead, they voted to let the state hold on to its $66 million, of which $40 million will go to school construction, $2.5 million to drug education, and another $2 million to other youth programs.

The Brown administration has posted a job opening for the Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation, which will set standards for California’s cannabis industry by 2018.

Sounds like an awesome opportunity, dude. You could get in on the ground floor of California’s push into regulating medical marijuana, making from $115,608 to $128,808 per year. 

But you’ll have to deal with writing a load of rules and regulations, like licensing standards for distributors. A first in California. 

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FAYETTEVILLE (KFSM) -- The 17th Annual Arkansas Poll showed that Arkansans have stayed consistent with their party line alliance, but their views on certain issues have shifted.

The biggest change came in Arkansans' views on medical marijuana, according to a press release on the poll.

The 2012 poll showed that 44 percent of respondents were in favor of allowing medical marijuana use, compared to 52 percent who opposed the measure.

The Campaign to Legalize Marijuana Like Alcohol in Arizona announced today that it’s collected 100,000 signatures, or two-thirds of what it needs to get the Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act on the November 2016 ballot.

CRMLA still needs to get at least 50,000 more valid signatures by July, though leaders of the campaign have said they’re aiming to get 230,000 and are "very, very confident" they’ll succeed.

MIRIAM WASSER~ Phoenix New Times

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Brandon Emmett grew up around marijuana. His first job was turning compost on a marijuana farm for $5 an hour. He later moved to trimming and then cloning plants. His uncle was also a grower.

The dangers of marijuana preached at his public high school in Oregon never rang true. The marijuana users Emmett knew were decent people.

“I have always been part of the cannabis culture,” he said. “People talk about ‘Reefer Madness.’ I just know that that is not true.”

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HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - Voters cast their ballots in Ohio on Tuesday, in a referendum to legalize both medical and recreational marijuana.

It would also allow doctors to write prescriptions for medical marijuana.

In Alabama, both types of marijuana are still illegal, but a cannabis derivative is being tested to treat epilepsy.

CBD Oil comes from marijuana, contains no hallucinogens, and is being tested by UAB in a medical study to see how epilepsy patients react to the treatment.