Florida Lawyer Is On the Hook for $370,000 After Telling Clients Weed Was Legal

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A Jacksonville lawyer told clients that cannabis was completely legal in the Sunshine State (it's not), leading to one of them getting arrested.

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If you’re going to hire a lawyer to give you advice about how to grow legal cannabis in your state, it’s probably a good idea to make sure that cannabis is actually legal in your state.

For Florida couple Scott and Marsha Yandell, that lesson came the hard way in 2015. Their attorney, Ian Christensen, assured them that they could legally grow and consume cannabis for medicinal purposes, even though Florida had not yet legalized medical marijuana in any form or fashion. To back up his bogus claims, Christensen printed fake medical marijuana certificates...

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