FLORIDA:  Florida may soon become the latest state to allow doctors to prescribe marijuana. Advocates there are gathering signatures to put a medical marijuana referendum on the fall ballot.

But Florida’s Legislature may act sooner to allow residents access to a particular type of marijuana. Advocates say the strain called Charlotte’s Web offers hope to children with severe seizure disorders.

Paige Figi is a Colorado mom whose young daughter Charlotte suffers from Dravet syndrome. It’s a debilitating genetic disease that left the little girl unable to walk, talk or eat. Figi says an oil extracted from a particular strain of marijuana has helped save her daughter’s life.

“Charlotte is doing great,” says Figi, who was in Tallahassee, Fla., to testify at a legislative hearing. “She’s two years in to treatment. I would have brought her here, but she can’t leave Colorado.”

That’s because the marijuana extract her daughter depends on can’t legally be transported across state lines.