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Medical Marijuana Symposium To Be Held Tonight In Naples

By Rachel Iacovone

Published November 1, 2017 at 1:35 PM EDT

My Florida Green is hosting a four-hour symposium tonight at the Hilton Naples called Cannabis Speaks. The event, which is aimed at physicians and potential patients and their families, is a first for Southwest Florida.

The event is moderated by Nick Garulay, the founder and CEO of My Florida Green, the first and only patient access portal and ancillary physician platform that facilitates Medical Marijuana recommendations in Florida.

Dr. Barry Gordon is the president and chief medical officer of the Compassionate Cannabis Clinic in Venice, Florida. Dr. Gordon is a 30-year veteran of emergency room medicine, most notably dealing with drug addicts and overdoses.

Dr. Gordon and Garulay join Gulf Coast Live to give a snapshot of the current state of medical marijuana in Florida.

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Rachel Iacovone

Rachel Iacovone is a reporter and associate producer of Gulf Coast Live for WGCU News. Rachel came to WGCU as an intern in 2016, during the presidential race. She went on to cover Florida Gulf Coast University students at President Donald Trump's inauguration on Capitol Hill and Southwest Floridians in attendance at the following day's Women's March on Washington.Rachel was first contacted by WGCU when she was managing editor of FGCU's student-run media group, Eagle News. She helped take Eagle News from a weekly newspaper to a daily online publication with TV and radio branches within two years, winning the 2016 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award for Best Use of Multimedia in a cross-platform series she led for National Coming Out Day. She also won the Mark of Excellence Award for Feature Writing for her five-month coverage of an FGCU student's transition from male to female.As a WGCU reporter, she produced the first radio story in WGCU's Curious Gulf Coast project, which answered the question: Does SWFL Have More Cases of Pediatric Cancer?Rachel graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.

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