The contentious matter of free park passes has finally been settled: Employees of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District will now see their actual tickets and discounts replaced by a yearly stipend. The DeSantis-appointed board members of the Tourism Oversight District — who replaced the previous Reedy Creek Improvement District — voted unanimously on Wednesday evening to award employees of the District $3,000 a year in place of the passes, according to reporting from the Associated Press. This vote came after the board faced significant blowback from employees (including some District first responders)  over their elimination of the decades-old tradition of free passes as a fringe benefit earlier this summer.

Among the nearly 850,000 medical marijuana cardholders currently in Florida, vaporizing oil is becoming an increasingly popular method of conveniently consuming cannabis. In my time as a patient, I've sampled nearly every style of THC vape cartridge offered on the local legal market, from cheap and potent distillate flavored with botanical extracts — aka the weed equivalent of Everclear and Kool-Aid — to solventless liquid live rosin, which I consider closer to a top-shelf single malt Scotch. Although I usually prefer concentrates that preserve the full spectrum of the plant's original properties, a shiny new product available locally from Curaleaf has recently upended my personal rankings and added a glittering new entry to my ganja lexicon: liquid diamonds.

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