Florida’s marijuana law: entrepreneurs are waiting to exhale

By Barbara Liston TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) – Retired real estate agent Wanda Hurt, 58, is learning how to grow peppers and tomatoes, but when she graduates from Florida's own version of Pot U she'll be equipped to start her own medical marijuana business. Hurt is one of hundreds of would-be pot producers paying $500 to learn the business after Florida last week joined the march of 22 states permitting limited marijuana use. The school, officially called Medical Marijuana Tampa, is one of several dozen new Florida businesses hoping to cash in on the cannabis crop. The Florida legislature on Friday passed a bill to legalize Charlotte's Web, a noneuphoric strain of marijuana commonly believed to reduce epileptic seizures.