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The January figure continues a pattern of steady sales for what remains the largest medical-only marijuana market in the country in terms of overall revenue and patient count (Oakland has more licensed dispensaries).

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David R. Kotok, Sarasota

...marking a notable increase from the $142 million recorded in December and the $145 million sold in January 2025, according to data from the research firm Headset.

A government that is blinded by stubbornness instead of flexible and adaptable, is a government that fails to see health benefits for its citizens. Is that the Florida we Floridians want?

Florida’s medical cannabis market generated $151,751,564 in sales in January...

That is true even though many citizens (polls show a substantial majority) clearly want cannabis expansion. And a majority voted once to do so. And over a million signatures were reportedly collected to petition another vote while the FL government is busy trying to disqualify signatures.

...if the research were encouraged. But in Florida, the politics which permit medical cannabis oppose expansion of cannabis including recreational cannabis and therefore politicians attempt to squelch the initiative to allow cannabis use expansion.

Some of my fellow cancer patients use cannabis products to manage pain. They succeed without using opioids or other powerful painkilling drugs.

Imagine if cannabis were fully legal and imagine if medical research were advancing to determine what the pain treating benefits could be...

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Stablecoins could amp up Treasury demand or flip the script on payments. New world order in finance, folks. Like it? Doesn't matter—it's here.

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Without the check, those park improvements might:
a) not have been done
b) have required higher existing taxes
c) have had the city issue a municipal bond
d) come about through some other creative financing

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