Meet Florida's Only Democrat Elected To Statewide Office
Nikki Fried (@nikkifried) is the state's new commissioner of agriculture and consumer services, and she's shaking things up in Tallahassee.
She was voted into office on a pro-marijuana platform, has appointed a new director of cannabis, Holly Bell, and is pushing for the expansion of medical marijuana in the Sunshine State.
"The reason why I've been such a big advocate of [medical marijuana] is I've seen firsthand patients from all across our country, all across the state, who are suffering some horrible conditions," she tells Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson. "Allowing them opportunities to have the purest form of this medicine is life saving and altering for so many of our patients who can't have tinctures or other types of vaporizers — which add different types of chemicals and things into the products."
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/04/04/florida-agriculture-nikki-fried
