Author: Dorron Blumberg

Making the Case for Palliative Care

A joint study by the Center to Advance Palliative Care and the National Palliative Care Research Center (America’s Care of Serious Illness: 2019 State-by-State Report Card on Access to Palliative Care in Our Nation’s Hospitals) offers an instructive snapshot of where we are today. Of the 89 palliative care programs offered at 138 Florida hospitals in the study

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Green Roads Expanding CBD Offerings into Pet Arena

When you start a company by first creating products that you give to family and friends, your overreaching goal is to make sure that what you’re providing is not only effective, but safe. And it is this same concern for protecting the customer that has helped Green Roads grow from a small, start-up business begun at a kitchen table into the largest, privately owned CBD company in the U.S.

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Florida’s Hemp Rulemaking Process Explained

We have been tracking the state attending rule making hearings and University briefings on Hemp. We are hopefully nearing the end of a long process, assuming we don’t have any litigation over the rules. Many good concerns have been brought up and most have been addressed, but for those that remain the issues seem to come down to one of three issues. 

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Paying Employees in the Cannabis Industry

Paying employees who work for a cannabis employer should be no different than any other employer, with one exception. One BIG exception. Marijuana is still a Schedule I drug, on par with heroin and LSD and a violation of the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA), making many companies nervous about doing business with this industry.

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