Marijuana in Florida

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the WA and M Studio on the campus of
Florida A and M University.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
This is Mary Forum Radio, a weekly conversation on the
education and research of the medical marijuana being conducted at Famuni.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Hi. I'm Heidi Outway, your host for this conversations on
cannabis virtual form, brought to you by the Medical Marijuana
Education and Research Initiative at Florida and M University. In
this conversation, we're looking back at twenty twenty four and
the top stories and issues that made marijuana one of
the most talked about subjects in Florida. This is a

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special edition of the Forum and I'm pleased to have
members of the Fam You Mary program as our guests.
Michelle Wilson stands at the forefront of community education as
the program manager of Education, Training and Community Engagement for
Fam You Mary. In this role, she orchestrates statewide outreach initiatives,

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acting as a liaison among the program's stakeholders. Is committed
to her role and dedicated to enlightening Floridians about both
lawful and unlawful marijuana use. Our next guest is Anthony Washington,
who serves as Mary's statewide Outreach Coordinator. He uses his
decade of experience in law enforcement, the drug testing industry,

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and public service to build strategic partnerships, oversee community based
education programs, and promote initiatives to enhance Floridians understanding of
cannabis related topics. I'm so excited to have Anthony and
Michelle on the show today. To everyone watching, please share
the link to this forum on your social media channels

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so others can learn about this topic. We also want
you to tell us what you think about this forum
by completing the survey that'll be posted on Mary's social
media pages. Your name will be entered into a drawing
in January twenty twenty five to win a one hundred
dollars gift card provided by one of Mary's partners. Now
let's start this conversation on cannabis. To everyone listening and viewing,

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I want you to know that the Medical Marijuana Education
and Research Initiative is the only program of its kind
in Florida. So Michelle, I'm going to turn to you
to tell our viewers what Mary is and why it
was created.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Great, great, great segue, Heidi, and thank you for having
us here today. We're so thrilled to be able to
talk to our viewing audience in this format about the
fam You Mary program. So let's get into it. So
why fam you. FAMU is uniquely qualified to educate the

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state of Florida, not just our local communities, but we
have a statewide mandate from the Florida Legislature, and that
is to educate Gridians about the use of medical marijuana.
How do you access medical marijuana? But we also talk
about the unlawful use of marijuana and the potent dangers
associated with streetwad whatever you want to refer to it

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as reefer cannabis marijuana. There are so many dangers associated
with using that type of drug when it's not purchased
from a licensed dispensary in the state of Florida. So
we're happy to be here today to talk about both sides,
the medical side, how do you access it, and the

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unlawful side and the potential dangers that we've seen and
heard about.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, marijuana was one of the most talked about topics
in Florida in twenty twenty four, and the biggest story
was the push to approve recreational or adult marijuana, which
you kind of referenced earlier. While Mary wasn't involved, I
know that the program did encounter Floridians who had lots
of questions. So can you, both you and Anthony tell

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us what did you hear leading up to the election
and what do you hearing from the public since Amendment
three failed? Michelle, you want to take that off sure?

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Sure.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
So we had a lot of questions, believe it or not,
from people visiting us and during our engagement. One of
the main questions is they wanted to know, well, what
was the position that we were taking and what did
we think personally about Amendment three. But of course we
are a neutral body. We educate and we educate and

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we educate. We do not advocate. The only thing we
advocate for is to make sure people are well informed.
So you know, we provided that information. We also talked
about the current law and how that could compare to
the Amendment three had it passed. You know, it did

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not pass. Most individuals wanted to know about the next day,
what were what would be the next steps, because, believe
it or not, there are many people that we came
in contact with that were very confident that it would pass,
and so they were preparing, and they wanted to know

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how best too was there, whether it was whether you
were on the side of you know, you were against
it or for it. So we took that as an
opportunity to talk about the current laws, and we also
provided as much information as we knew at the time
in terms of how that administrative process could have played

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out had it actually passed. So there were some misconceptions
about whether they would still be able to have to
have a card, or whether they would have to go
to a dispensary, or even more so, whether they would
for some still be able to purchase marijuana from the

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person that they've been purchasing it from, for example, ten years.
So we hear those types of questions and stories because
we make a safe space for them to talk about
it and for them to ask us those types of questions.
So we used it as an educational opportunity, Anthony.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
And that was an excellent and regal explanation of what
took place in the conversations that we had, well what
recreation marijuana wasn't legalized. The conversation highlighted importance of continued
education about marijuana's effects, legalities, and potential impacts. Mary still
want to remain committed to addressing misconceptions and ensuring that

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our public has access to factual and biased and unbiased information.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
So that's why we're still here.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, and you all talked about how medical marijuana is
still legal in the state of Florida and the state
just to proved twenty two new licenses to increase access
to consumers. So can you all walk us through the
process for people to access legal medical marijuana in Florida?

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Do you want me to start? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (07:05):
Sure, Okay, So how do you access legal marijuana in
the state of Florida? And that is a common question, Heidi,
that we come in contact with when we're out in
the field, when we're doing forums, whether they're in person
or virtual, people still want to know about this medical
marijuana and how does it work and whether it's something

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that they can benefit from based on their individual conditions,
their thoughts, their ideas. So we tell them because that's
our role. We talk about qualified conditions. What are those
qualified conditions that Florida has identified that can be treated

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with medical marijuana. We give them examples, We talk about pain,
We ask them, well, what do you know? Because we
want to start you know where there's that opportunity, and
so by the time we get through talking about the
qualified conditions, usually they have identified either a condition that

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they themselves are interested in or a family member, their grandmother,
their child, their uncle, pain associated with arthritis, anxiety, and
those are some of the more common conditions that we
talk about when we're out there engaging the public. And

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so then we move on to what is a qualified physician?

Speaker 1 (08:38):
What does that mean?

Speaker 4 (08:39):
And when when use that terminology? We have to be
careful because it's terminology that we are used to hearing
and that we know about. But for someone who's just
hearing that, they don't know what that is. It could
be to them their primary care physician, it could be
a specialist. So we break down exactly what is that

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type of doctor and how do you get access to
that doctor. We give them resources to find doctors by
using their address, by using their zip code, because we
know that the dispensaries and doctors aren't in every community
throughout Florida. So if we're going to educate someone on

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how to get a medical marijuana card, we want to
make sure they understand the next step of well, how
do you locate these resources? And if they're not in
your community, what's the next best community for you to
seek out this type of assistance. So that's it in
a nutshell. You must see first, you have to have

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a condition, you must see a medical marijuana doctor, you
must receive a medical marijuana card from the Department of Health,
and then you must purchase your medicine at a licensed
dispensery here in Florida.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Heidi, So, Anthony, with your law enforcement background, I think
it would be important for us to share with our
viewers and listeners what are the laws regarding medical marijuana use,
because there are certain places even though you may have
a qualifying condition, you've been given a medical marijuana card,

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you're getting it legally from a dispensary. If you use
it in certain places or if you're caught with it
in certain situations, it could lead to some legal troubles.
So can you touch on that just a little bit,
just to further educate the public about that.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Definitely, the primary thing that you do want to understand
when it comes to the laws that no matter what
the state says, it's still descheduled and federal light is
illegal regardless, so you cannot possess it in federal spaces,
court rooms, universities, anywhere that gets federal funding. Even in

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Section eight housing, you cannot possess medical marijuana has laws
that governs and all that, and there's also statues that
the State of Florida has that governs where you can
utilize medical marijuana. You cannot be smoking in public. It
has to be within your home. You cannot do to
DUIs drive and utilize marijuana itself too, So there are

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many rescriptions that you have on it, and there are
also protections within the law too that it helps you
as well.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah, thank you for sharing that, and to everyone who's
listening and watching, we want to encourage you to go
to the Florida Department of Health Office of Medical Marijuana
Use Program. They actually have all this information there in
addition to Mary's website, which we'll talk about a little
bit later. But if you want to find out what
the qualifying conditions are, how to access a medical marijuana

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physician qualified physician, and the process, please go to OMMU
website to learn more. So with that, I want to
kind of transition into the work that you've been doing
across the state with your participating in New US community
events in Florida throughout twenty twenty four, and during those engagements,
you all addressed and informed the public on a lot

(12:08):
of marijuana related issues and trends that have been happening
across the state. So can you all walk us through
those topics that really you all were spending a lot
of time working on and addressing with Floridians across the
state of Florida. Michelle, I'm going to start with you
because you all were doing a lot of work with
programs in schools when it comes to kids using cannabis.

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Can you tell us a little bit about that?

Speaker 4 (12:34):
Sure, Heidi, Well, if you've been paying attention to the news,
or if you've been reading articles about what's happening in
our schools and with our youth as it relates to marijuana,
you would have heard that there are so many children
being impacted by the use of marijuana. They're getting access

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to it either from their home because someone has medical marijuana,
or they're purchasing it from someone at school. There many
ways they're getting access to it, but it's very harmful
to them, and so we've heard stories about children being
removed from school because they've either passed out they've overdosed

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on gummies, chips, or some other type of candy that
someone has given them some not knowing that it contained
the THHC substance which makes you high, and their lives
are in danger and the people that they are around
who are trying to care for them. So we've partnered

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with youth organizations throughout the state of Florida, Heidi, and
what we're trying to do is bring a safety message.
We want to provide safety resources for parents. We want
to bring experts to the table to talk about the
potential impacts of youth you using marijuana in general, realizing

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that their brains aren't fully developed, so in addition to
them overdosing on gummies, they're also impacting their cognitive abilities
for the long run, and there's so much that we
don't know because of the lack of research available that
we have to be very careful when it comes to

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our children. And so we've partnered with organizations like the
Boys and Girls Club, the Poison Control Department and agency
in Jacksonville, and we're trying to bring these resources to
the forefront because we want to protect our kids and
we want our kids to be well informed about what's

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happening to them if they should choose to try to
experiment with marijuana.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
And one of.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
Those additional ways that we're also trying to combat this epidemic,
I'll call it an epiddemic, is by instituting a peer
to peer program children to listen to children because of
that peer pressure. So if we can train one child

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on how to become an ambassador for what's right and
talk to another child about the peer pressure that they
may be experiencing from their friends, then we think that
we can have a leeway into a better way or
a more innovative way to educate our children, while at

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the same time we're educating parents about what to look for.
So what do you you know? What if you think
your child is using marijuana, how do you even begin
that conversation. So we've been having these types of conversations
out in the public, whether it's in person virtually, whether
it's bringing a pediatrician to the table through our Conversation

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on Cannabis virtual shows, then creating those virtual shows and
to podcasts and including them on our website and in
our social media, so everyone has an opportunity to get
this information. That's what's important. Not just us talking to ourselves,
but making sure the information is in a format that

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people can understand, digest, and comprehend, because we like to
go where people are and just providing information. If there's
no return on the investment, it's just talking and providing information.
So we're really passionate about our partnerships to address what's
happening with our youth around the state of Florida.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, that's awesome. And then Anthony, you know, we saw
a lot of stories about the safety of cannabis that
is not purchased through a medical marijuana dispensary, so people
are getting it. You know, we have a speaker on
this form who said they have ice cream trucks down
in South Florida where they're actually selling cannabis infused products,

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almost like what you're talking about, Michelle, to people. So
can you talk about you know, the topic that we
saw a lot of the news of cannabis lace with
chemicals or you know, ventyl and other things that have
been harmful. We've even had some overdoses and you know,
students coming in for spring break in Florida. You know

(17:27):
a lot of stories about that. So talk about that
hot topic that we saw in the news throughout twenty
twenty four.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yes, he definitely hit on an important topic.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
And although the legal market the traditional market, they are
stop gap measures.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
There are rules.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Put in place, policies to ensure the safety of the product.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
On the other end of that, you know his.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Old old movie Forrest Gump, and Forrest Gump says, life
is like a box of chocolate. You never know what
you're going to get, and that's all of that enlists market.
It's like there's it's lace and one of the main
things that's laced with its fitting on, and that's it's
one of the biggest subject.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
But that's not the only thing though.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
When we're out in the public, sort of sort of humor,
semi humorous conversation that we have in one of the
attendees was we actually, what's the difference between medical marijuana
and recreation or street marijuana? And he said, thought about it,
look curious head about twenty dollars. I wish it was
just that simple. There's a growing need to educate the

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public about the dangers and the contaminated listed marijuana that's
out there.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
One of the biggest things that they're having is there's a.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Marijuana being on a recreational it's a business. For some
of these people who are supplying it out there. This
is how to make their life. This is how they're
making their living. And one of the biggest things that's
coming on is there's a drug called zazo as a
brand of marijuana called Zazo and it comes from California.
This higher blend of marijua want to it colls more
propound and it has a higher effect of getting these

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clients to hide it their need to person people who
purchase it. So the individuals who cannot afford to purchase
that that the higher blend of marijuana, they're doing things
like adding fit and all or adding yearine, are adding
other products to dare marijuana to try to keep up
with this. And these are not pharmacists by no means

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or no scientists out there.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
These people in their baptops and their kitchen.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Just mixing things up so you don't know what you're
going to get, and it's a business to them.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
And these are some of the things that we're facing
out there.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
So we definitely if you are going to utilize, Florida
has created a safe path to do that, and that's
through the medical marijuana route and you all you got
to do is lessus Michelle indicated early in this conversation
is meet the criteria, talk to your physician about it.
I do not recommend that you go to your street
pharmacists or any other anybody else to go out and

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buy marijuana because you never know, as I indicated from
the part of this conversation, what you're going to get.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, yeah, wow. So the other topic that we spoke
a lot about it you know here on the Forum
and as well, you know it was it made a
lot of news was the federal government saying that they
were looking to change marijuana at the federal level from
a Schedule one drug to a Schedule three. So can

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you all talk about that? I mean, we haven't heard
anything about it in a couple of months, but that
was big news in twenty twenty four, So can you
all talk about that?

Speaker 4 (20:37):
And we talked about this on one of our shows.
Anthony was able to bring in several experts who talked
to us about the testing environment and what that meant
and how how would we proceed and what are some
of those precautions that we would have to take to
undertake such a descheduling effort, and so I'm going to

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refer to him because he's from that, he's from that industry,
that testing industry, and I think those were some of
the most powerful and impactful shows as it related to
the scheduling of marijuana.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Thank you Michelle for elaborating on that.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
One of the biggest issues that would occur when you
change or reschedule marijuana from a schedule one to a
schedule three, we have to be mindful of the Honorbus
Acts or the drug testing. This is the honor of
his actuacy was the bill or act that created the
drug testing industry itself. And if you're going to have
safety sensitive, sensitive jobs that you need to be drug tested,

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and employers also took this upon a Department of Transportation
DOT also said what we're going to set guidelines for it.
But one specific car Barty guideline that was not addressed
is that once you reschedule marijuana from a scheduled one
to a Schedule three, you can no longer test for
it because they set guidelines saying that HHS Human Health

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and Human Services can only test for scheduled one drugs
and place among those cards. And once you break it
down to a schedule three. You can no longer test
for it, So there'll be positions such as your pilot,
your positions, school bus drobbers, people who are in safety
sensitors positions no longer will be tested for it. So
within the drug testing industry, what we're doing, we're trying

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to go back and get a card about saying that
you if you are in a safety sensitive position, that
you do need to still require testing and employers should
have a right to act those employees to test. So
we got to be careful when we do try to
implement some of these rules and changing and bringing marijuana,
and that we do it in a safe and impactful

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way that we're still protecting the public.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, thank you for that explanation because it may come
up again in twenty twenty five. So now everyone knows
what it's about and they'll be able to respond accordingly.
So both of you all are really heavily involved in
Mary's public education and outreach activities and you all are
coordinating them, working with your partners that you have cultivated

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to really get down throughout the state of Florida to
where people are every day, from you know, events, sporting events, festivals,
music festivals, classrooms, universities, public schools. I mean, you guys
are really really you know, down in the in the
communities across the state with your partners to really ensure

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that you're reaching people and educating them about cannabis in Florida.
So what are some of the activities that really stood
out to you that you would like to share with
our listeners and viewers so they can understand the depth
of the work that you all do to ensure the
public truly understands what's happening with cannabis use in Florida.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Yeah, you covered a lot of that did because I
don't know if you said law enforcement events, because we
attend those as well because of the unlawful side, and
then in law enforcement needs to understand too what these
laws are and how to navigate in Florida as it

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relates to marijuana. So we're happy to do that side
as well. I would say one of the more impactful
engagements we've had, again, it involves youth, but it's at
the Family Cafe.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
The Family Cafe is an annual event where you have children,
disabled children and their families coming together to have a
fun time and to bond because parents and caregivers who
are taking care of children with disabilities can sometimes it

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can be challenging to take a vacation. So in Orlando, Florida,
every year, we're all gathered there, thousands and thousands and
thousands of people and Mary is there. Mary is there
again to provide education about the use of medical marijuana.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
But then of course we.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
Also have to include the unlawful use as well. But
we're there to educate parents and to talk to them
about the use of medical marijuana. And we see parents
who are really trying to help their children, help them
with their disability, and find ways to make sure that
they're making good decisions about health related alternatives. So we're

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there to provide that general information and we can see
that when we provide that information to parents, you know,
they walk away knowing that this is something that may
be for them, but perhaps they need a little bit
more information to talk to their doctors, because we always
referry back to your physician to have that conversation, but

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we give you enough information to actually start that conversation.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Yeah, and you've had a number of physician qualified physicians
in the state of Florida not only on this forum,
but participating in your outreach initiatives to educate families about
how cannabis can be used. Medical cannabis can be used
as a treatment for a number of ailments and disabilities.
So that's another area. So folks are listening. You can

(26:32):
go to Mary's YouTube page and you can find those
forums where we have some of the top medical marijuana
physicians who treat children in the state talking about the
work that they're doing. So thank you Michelle for highlighting that. Anthony,
what was the top activity from your perspective, I.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Can recall that within a week's time, you got to
remind remind you that GP Mendi, who's our director, he
hasn't saying and it says where two or three are gathered,
so will you find Mary as well? And it's sort
of true because I remember in a week's time and

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I didn't think about it till that week was over.
We went to a youth event where we were having
back to school rally, giving out book backs, speaking to
parents about medical marijuana and the challenges that some youths
might have involved. And then in that same week we
were talking to judges, decision makers, lawyers and politicians about

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medical marijuana too at another event, and that's within a
week's time. So the cross section that we got a
chance to speak to, the individuals that we got a
chance to answer questions and also listen to them as well,
and the discussions that we had, it just makes you
well informed about what Floridans are thinking, not just from
the higher ups or the the decision makers, we also

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down to the lay person and Mary Lay's right down
between to keep these conversations going.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
Yeah, So another way that the public can really continue
to either reach out and learn more and also engage
with Mary is by looking at your various channels that
are available year round, twenty four hours a day where
people could get, you know, credible information about cannabis in Florida,
not only on the legal side, but also on the

(28:28):
illicit side, so they can understand Florida's lass. So can
you all talk about all the different ways that Mary
can that Floridians and people outside of the state who
come and visit us all the time can learn more
about your program and also about the engagements that you do,
the activities that you do, and then also just about

(28:51):
cannabis in general, and you know, everyone's going to google you,
of course when they hear this, But what are other
things other than your website where people can engage with
Mary Michelle.

Speaker 4 (29:02):
Well, let me start out by saying Mary is always
on the move. To piggyback off of what Anthony was saying.
We are always on the move and we're always engaging,
and so we have spent very little time in the office,
and that's what makes this job so interesting. It's because
of the engagement. And we know that the one on

(29:23):
one experience is one of the most effective ways to
engage our communities, and so we're very thrilled that we
have this unique opportunity to do that. Let's see some
of the ways that you can keep up with Mary.
We just instituted our LinkedIn account for the professionals and

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our students around the state of Florida. Anyone who would
like to access our LinkedIn account and learn where we're
going next and where we're going to be showing up.
We talk about our conversations on cannabis, advertise them give
you an opportunity to register, but we all know if
you have a register, we don't keep you out. There

(30:06):
are so many ways that you can come back and
take a look at that conversation at your leisure where
we can be on your telephone. You can download our app.
You can catch us at a concert. You can catch
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(30:31):
stations throughout Florida. In your party, hear about what's happening
with Mary. And usually when we're out, we tend to
ask people, so how did you hear about Mary? Have
you ever heard about Mary before? Yes, I heard it
on the radio or I listen to this show every
Sunday after church, so yes, I'm quite familiar with Mary.

(30:54):
Can I take a picture?

Speaker 3 (30:56):
So they're excited when.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
They see us in their or at events that they attend,
and we're there greeting them with smiles and information. So
those are some ways. But I will tell you that
our education modules are top notch.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Okay, let's talk about that.

Speaker 4 (31:15):
We have an on demand program education program that consists
of hundreds of modules. I guarantee you if you go
to our website, you register, you register to subscribe to
get information about those modules, or just by clicking and visiting,

(31:36):
you're probably going to be there for hours literally, because
there are so many topics that you can click on
at your leisure to learn more about marijuana. What about
marijuana and pharmaceuticals, what's the history of marijuana, What do
I do with my child if my child is using marijuana?

(31:58):
How do I go about having conversation? What should I
look out for? And then there are those conditions glaucoma
and marijuana. How can I find out more about that?
So there is a plethora of information there right at
your fingertips at no cost to the public. And so

(32:19):
that's the beautiful thing that it's open. Whether you're in
Florida or wherever you are, whether you are a doctor,
whether you're a lawyer, or whatever your profession or your
plight in life is, you have access to this information
at your leisure, in the comfort of your home, or
wherever you'd like to access it. So I really highly

(32:41):
recommend that people try out these modules and take a
look at really really get engaged and learn more.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
About this topic.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
Okay, So, Anthony, if someone is listening or watching this
form and they would love for Mary, they want to
reach out to Mary to you know, maybe have you
come and speak, or they want to be a speaker
on the forum, or they just want some more information.
What's the best way for them to get in contact
with the Mary team.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
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Okay, Thank you well Michelle and Anthony. Thank you both
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