In Florida, pot medicine has a tough battle before it. The Supreme Court justices approved the ballot language for legalizing medical marijuana in the state 4-3 and lawmakers on both sides of the battle are now revving up to prepare…
Stop unfair drug conviction sentences
Since the 1980’s, the war on drugs resulted in stiff minimum-mandatory sentences for drug traffickers caught with boatloads of drugs imported from foreign countries. Somehow the minimum-mandatory drug-trafficking sentences were amended to include as little as seven prescription pain pills.…
Florida Bar’s rule on advertising too restrictive
Recently, the law firm of Searcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart & Shipley filed a federal lawsuit in Tallahassee against The Florida Bar claiming that the Bar’s ethics rules restricting law firm website content and posting on blogs was an unconstitutional infringement…
Florida’s harsh mandatory minimum drug sentencing hurts all involved parties
The hysteria over drugs in the 1980s was fueled by media coverage, Nancy Reagan’s Just Say No campaign and the DARE program. The era produced law after law regarding drug use and trafficking. One of these was the mandatory minimum sentencing…
Antonio Morrison, The Gator that barks like a dog!
Last month University of Florida starting middle linebacker, Antonio Morrison, was arrested for barking at a police dog. Within days, the video of the arrest and comments about the incident were national news. Fortunately, the state attorney’s office in Alachua…
Sticks and stones break bones but Symbols never hurt me
Freedom of Speech does not only protect the spoken word, but it also protects what has been termed “symbolic speech”. Probably the greatest example of symbolic speech is the extension of the middle finger while all other fingers are tucked…
Merit Retention Florida politics and court Justices
It has happened before in other States and now it is rearing its head in the State of Florida. What we are talking about is an attempt by either political parties, or special interest groups in the forms of PAC’s…
Sex Sells but does it harm as well
We don’t know how many times that we have started or ended one of our articles with the phrase “Sex Sells”. Last month’s article dealt with Osama bin Laden having pornographic movies in his hideout in Pakistan and again we…
FL-SEA adult entertainment swim with us or drown
On Monday, March 21, 2011, the law offices of Benjamin & Aaronson, P.A. hosted a meeting of FL-SEA. For those of you who do not know what FL-SEA is about or stands for, it is for lack of a better…
Hey Joe where you going with that cash in your hand?
For years we have told our clients and lectured in our speeches in places such as Las Vegas, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and here in Florida that the adult entertainment industry needs to get involved in local affairs. We have…