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SARASOTA, Fla.—The medical cannabis dispensary opened by Alt-Med Florida off Fruitville Road in Sarasota will be the first of its kind. The dispensary, called Muv, will grow, extract and manufacture all its THC and CBD products right there. The company opened a similar dispensary in Apollo Beach last year and have another 23 planned. Company officials said the staff wouldn’t be like what people would expect at a medical marijuana dispensary. Wilson Floridapolitics.com   Democratic U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist announced a new bill Wednesday that would allow veterans to be treated with medical marijuana without getting canned from federal government jobs. Crist introduced H.R. 6589, also known as the “Fairness in Federal Drug Testing Under State Laws Act,” during a roundtable discussion with veterans and cannabis industry representatives in Largo. “Medical marijuana is an issue of compas*ion, and in the veterans’ community, access is even more important as more and more veterans are turning to cannabis to address chronic pain and PTSD. At the same time, the federal government is Legislature “considered important health and safety factors” when deciding to ban smoking, refuting an as*ertion made by a County Circuit judge that the amendment legalizing the drug in Florida recognized the right for it to be smoked in private. Pointing in part to smoking-related health effects, Attorney General Pam Bondi's office on Friday filed a 57-page brief arguing that an appeals court should uphold a decision by the Legislature to ban smoking medical marijuana. The brief, filed at the 1st District Court of Appeal, came as the Morgan hints at ballot initiative for marijuana legalization JIM ROSICAJune 26, 2018, 2:31 pm John Morgan on Tuesday said he’s “going to look at starting a fund” toward an initiative to legalize marijuana, including recreational use, on the 2020 ballot. He has previously has been on the record supporting marijuana legalization. His latest tweets move him further in terms of