“It’s a good time to be in St. Pete.”
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Friday, March 6, 2015
Cuban Consulate In Ybor City
The board of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce recently unanimously passed a motion in favor of reestablishing a Cuban consulate in Tampa. here
Rick Scott Doublespeak
Once again, Rick Scott owes George Orwell a debt of gratitude. Without the classic novel “1984” and its primer on political doublespeak, the governor’s State of the State speech this week would have been way more…let’s say transparent, since that’s a word repeatedly and ridiculously run through Scott’s Orwellian propaganda grinder recently. here
Florida Have You Signed The Petition?
The legislative session has started in Tallahassee - which means the clock is
ticking for medical marijuana in Florida.
In less than 60 days,
the legislature will either answer the call of 3.4 million Florida
voters - or they will have put full responsibility for passing
medical marijuana squarely back in the hands of us - United for
Care, you and the rest of our supporters will carry the burden of
fulfilling the will of the majority.
That's a big
responsibility, folks. And we aren't waiting:
We can't afford to.
The more we can collect through volunteer efforts
and online, the more money we'll have to fight the lies our
opposition is surely going to push out from here until election
day.
One of the reasons we fell short last year is because
so much of our money went to gathering petitions; money we could
have spent answering lies on the airwaves.
Tallahassee legislators are watching carefully to see if our intensity has
dropped. The harder we work, the more pressure they'll be under to pass a good,
clean medical marijuana bill that helps people now, not 18 months from
now.
Thank you for your continued support.
- Ben Pollara
P.S. f you've already signed the new petition, please forward
this email to everyone you know!!! If you've already done that, DO
IT AGAIN!!! And if you've already done that, please consider a donation to our petition efforts!
Ybor City going from tobacco to marijuana?
Ybor City: its very foundation is based on taking a plant, rolling it up, and then smoking it.
Of course, that plant was tobacco and for decades, Ybor's prime product was cigars.
But now a group called Common Bond Collaborative is ready to cut in on Ybor's historical tobacco ties with its own smokeable, agricultural product: marijuana. here
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Activist Workshop In Clearwater
we're helping to organize an Activist
Workshop at Island In The Sun in Clearwater
(100 Hampton Road, Clearwater, FL 33759).
Hillsborough County Commissioners Approved a $2.1 MillionCorporate Welfare Package
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Broward County Court; Jury Rules Medical Marijuana Patient “Not Guilty” on All Counts
A jury in the 17th Judicial Circuit in Broward County, Florida ruled that Ft.
Lauderdale resident, Jesse Teplicki, was “not guilty” on all criminal charges
surrounding his medical use of marijuana for the treatment of his chronic
anorexia. Michael C. Minardi, partner at the Kelley Kronenberg law firm and
longtime medical marijuana advocate, successfully argued Mr. Teplicki’s medical
necessity defense in front of a jury of his peers. Today’s verdict is
groundbreaking in that it is the first time that the “medical necessity” defense
was successfully argued in a jury trial, since Florida courts established the
defense over 20 years ago.
Florida for Care Executive Director, Ben
Pollara, reacted to the verdict with elation, “This verdict that Mr. Minardi won
for Jesse Teplicki is a game changer on the eve of the start of the 2015
legislative session. Legislative leaders in Tallahassee now have to look at
medical marijuana through the lens of this precedent established by a Florida
jury, in addition to the 58% of Floridians who voted for medical marijuana at
the polls last November.”
He continued, “the medical use of marijuana is
no longer solely a political issue with wide popular support, it is legal
precedent in Florida courts. This ruling should be a message to the legislature
that they should act this session on establishing a medical marijuana system in
our state so that sick and suffering Floridians don’t have to fight in court for
the right to use the medicine recommended by their doctors, as Mr. Teplicki did
today.”
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Centre for Girls: First Fridays Seminole Heights Art Walk
Please join us this Friday from 7-10pm for our first showcase in the First
Fridays
Seminole Heights Art Walk. info
Hillsborough And Pinellas Leaders In “Wage Theft”
Surpassed only by more-populous Miami-Dade County.
Leave it to local Liberals Darden Rice and Kevin Beckner to do something about it. here
Monday, March 2, 2015
The Real Bob Buckhorn
He did not endorse anyone in Florida'governors race.here
His 6 foot rule here
Right Wing love fest in Tampa here
We do have a choice, VOTE for Jose Vazquez
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