Guides
Guides and Articles
Everything we have written, gathered in one place. Some of these walk you through the Lee County side of getting certified and going to a dispensary for the first time. The rest answer the questions that turn up afterward. What to grind it with, where to keep it, and how to keep the smell out of a neighbor's living room. Take whichever one you came for.
Batteries
Buying a 510 battery when nothing is called one
Search Amazon for a 510 battery and you get soldering irons. Why that is, how to read past it, and the three specifications that actually matter.
2026-08-13
Making your own
Do you need an infusion machine?
A saucepan makes butter. A machine makes the same butter without the smell, the guesswork or the afternoon. Whether that trade is worth it, and what separates the three types.
2026-08-13
Ignition
Why a torch ruins a bowl
Four ways to light something, running from about 800 to over 2,500 degrees. What that range does to taste, and which end of it each job wants.
2026-08-13
Keeping it shut
Who a locked box is keeping it from
Florida requires the original packaging and says nothing about a lock. So the question is what you're securing against, and the honest answer changes what you should buy.
2026-08-13
Pipes
The pipe you carry and the pipe you keep
Where a piece lives decides almost everything about it. What a lid is worth, what survives a bag, and why the best pipe at home is usually the worst one to take anywhere.
2026-08-13
Being considerate
Cannabis smell in a condo or rental
Most of Lee County lives with a shared wall, a shared air handler or an HOA. What travels, what doesn't, and what to do before anyone mentions it.
2026-08-13
Stash boxes
The box that closes
A tray solves spillage. A box solves interruption. What closing something is worth in a shared home, and the point at which you need a lock instead.
2026-08-13
Rolling
Papers, cones or wraps
Three formats that make three different things. How long each takes, how each burns, and which one suits the amount of effort you want to put in.
2026-08-13
Keeping it working
How often to clean, and which method
Three ways to clean and three different jobs. Which one suits brushes, which needs a solvent, which is worth a machine, and how often each thing needs doing.
2026-08-12
Using it
How fine should you grind it?
Grind isn't one setting. What suits a paper chokes a pipe, and the most common rolling complaint is a grind problem rather than a rolling problem.
2026-08-12
Keeping it good
Storing cannabis through a Fort Myers year
Lee County gives you two opposite storage problems six months apart, and a third when the power goes out. What changes in May, what changes in November, and what to do about storm season.
2026-08-12
Getting your card
How to choose a certifying physician
What "qualified physician" actually means in Florida, the two fees people forget to ask about, and the one promise that should end a phone call.
2026-08-09
After your card
How your first dispensary visit goes, door to door
What to bring, what happens at the counter, and the supply rule that gets a buy refused when the patient expects it to be fine.
2026-08-09
Getting your card
Florida's qualifying conditions, in the state's own words
The statutory list, and the catch-all clause that matters more than the list. An unlisted condition is not automatically a no.
2026-08-09
Getting your card
What to bring to a certification appointment
Florida requires your first certification to happen in person. What to have with you, what is optional, and the one rule that changed in July 2026.
2026-08-08
Where the facts come from
The guides about Florida law and registry procedure are read at the statute or the Office of Medical Marijuana Use's own guidance before they go up, and each one carries the date it was last checked. Where the state has left something unanswered, the page says so.
The gear guides work differently, because there is no statute for how fine to grind flower. Those describe what the object does and what it costs you when it is the wrong one. Where a number turns up in them, a humidity band or a battery voltage, it is the same figure this site publishes everywhere else.
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Not medical or legal advice
These guides are informational summaries of Florida law, state procedure and ordinary product differences. They are not medical or legal advice and cannot tell you whether you personally qualify for anything, or what will help you.