Nikki Fried

Republican lawmakers in Florida dealt a blow to Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday by rejecting his proposed crackdown on immigration and opting to pursue their own legislative agenda. In a surprise move, the Florida House and Senate abruptly ended the special legislative session DeSantis called to...

Oregon Gov. Declines To Establish State Public Bank To Serve Marijuana Businesses Governor Tina Kotek (D) rejected a proposed bill that sought to establish a 19-member state task force responsible for exploring the potential advantages and drawbacks of establishing a public bank. Such an...

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives on Tuesday didn’t waste any time letting current and future gun owners in Minnesota, where Gov. Walz signed a recreational cannabis bill into law Tuesday, that they will have to choose between their guns and their weed. The...

Texas Senate Takes No Action On Marijuana Bills, Kills Legalization Push As Session Ends The legislative session in Texas came to a close on Monday. Senate members didn't consider House-passed measures to decriminalize marijuana, streamline expungements and allow doctors to recommend medical...

Experienced Exec Takes On New Role At Illicit Gardens Missouri-based Illicit Gardens recently announced that Kansas City native Jon Bond agreed to serve as chief revenue officer. Bond was one of the first employees of the cannabis tech company Dutchie. His experience is expected to help lead the...

Recent Second Amendment cases have set a precedent for stricter scrutiny of gun restrictions, presenting mounting challenges for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in its defense of the gun ban on cannabis users in multiple courts. A New Case A federal court has ruled once again that it is...

In November, a U.S. district judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried (D) and her co-plaintiffs against the federal government in which they were seeking to enable medical marijuana patients to buy and own firearms, ending a month-long legal...

A Federal Court dismissed Nikki Fried’s Second Amendment lawsuit against the federal government seeking to allow medical marijuana patients to buy and own firearms. US District Judge Allen Winsor wrote in the Friday ruling that “Florida’s medical...

The Department of Justice has struck yet again. As part of the ongoing Florida lawsuit on whether medical cannabis users should also have the right to own guns, got more comment recently when the DOJ claimed that MMJ users are inherently dangerous and therefore...

In August, the Department of Justice urged a federal court to dismiss the lawsuit broughy by Florida's Agriculture Minister Nikki Fried, which seeks to allow legal medical marijuana users to buy and own guns. The government argued that it was “dangerous to trust regular...

The Department of Justice asked a federal court to dismiss Florida Agriculture Minister Nikki Fried’s lawsuit that seeks to allow medical marijuana users from buying and owning guns. The government’s argument? It would be too “dangerous to trust regular marijuana users to exercise...

Last month, the Supreme Court declared that the individual’s right to carry a handgun in public for the purpose of self-defense is protected by the U.S. constitution, reported Reuters. A week following the landmark ruling the high court dismissed several cases sending them to lower courts for...

Florida Justice Department Responds To MMJ Patients And Gun Rights Advocates, Gubernatorial Candidate Nikki Fried On Why It’s Important Nikki Fried (D), Florida's Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services recently filed a lawsuit against the Biden...

Authorities in Florida watched as a Michigan man failed to stop and enter Agricultural Interdiction Station 6A and submit for inspection of his moving truck. The man apparently thought it best to keep his cargo concealed. But that was not going to happen. When officials ...

Firearms Rights & Marijuana: Florida Official Sheds Light On Lawsuit Around Legal Marijuana Users & Background Checks Florida’s agriculture commissioner Nikki Fried (D) filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration last month to shed light on the issue of medical cannabis...