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    After DeSantis vetoes anti-hemp bill, his PAC gets $100,000 from hemp grower

    By Jeffrey Schweers, Orlando Sentinel (TNS),

    11 days ago
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    Pablo Bicca passes a hemp product to Tammy Long at BattleBuds on Wednesday, March 13 in Tampa. [ LUIS SANTANA | Times ]

    TALLAHASSEE — Within weeks of vetoing a bill that Florida hemp growers said would spell the death knell for their industry, Gov. Ron DeSantis received a major donation from a man who’d led the campaign against the legislation.

    Apopka-based hemp grower and CBD dispensary owner Patrick O’Brien donated $100,000 to the governor’s Florida Freedom Fund on June 25, campaign records show.

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