A court is allowing a cannabis-based care company’s claims to proceed in a major Florida medical marijuana battle, as My Florida Green revises allegations.
For nearly a year, My Florida Green (MFG) told Florida’s dispensaries, physicians, and press that Leafwell’s free certification events were illegal because Leafwell was brokering patients and violating Florida’s medical use of marijuana statute. It sued, sent cease-and-desist letters, called Leafwell’s partners, and the litigation remains ongoing.
Now, after Leafwell served MFG with another motion for sanctions due to MFG’s lack of good faith in its pleadings to date, MFG is asking the state court to let it change its allegations, appearing this time around to no longer claim that Leafwell is brokering patients or violating Florida’s medical marijuana laws at all.
The court record is clear, according to Leafwell. In October 2025, MFG filed suit against Leafwell and simultaneously pursued broad media coverage of its claims. That case ended with MFG voluntarily dismissing its own lawsuit, and with a federal judge sanctioning MFG’s in-house counsel over filings containing fabricated legal citations, namely authorities the court could not locate.
Commenting upon the actions of MFG’s Counsel of Record in particular, the federal court stated that, in an attempt to justify his misconduct in the litigation, MFG’s In-House Counsel had offered “as colossal a collection of excuses and projection as the Court ha[d] seen in 25 years on the bench.” When MFG sued again, a federal court described its litigation strategy as “marked by fabricated citations, sanctioned attorneys, and a sequel complaint that seemingly tries to dodge a federal forum at all costs,” called its prosecution of the claims “a procedural mess,” and noted that four of the defendants MFG named “appear to be fictitious.”
In August of this year Leafwell served a motion for sanctions on MFG, contending that the company’s allegations against Leafwell in state court were lacking in any basis in reality given MFG’s recent sworn litigation filings, and thus that they were lacking in good faith. In response to Leafwell’s planned motion, MFG asked the court for permission to change its allegations again in what seems a desperate attempt to avoid further sanctions from issuing against it, while contemporaneously maintaining its own lawsuit against Leafwell. Meanwhile, in late September, the federal court in separate proceedings denied in its entirety MFG’s motion to dismiss Leafwell’s complaint, allowing Leafwell’s claims against MFG to proceed. The Court’s decision also addressed conduct by MFG’s counsel, cautioning that continued reliance on a chatbot to practice law could result in sanctions and a referral to the Florida Bar.
The company pointed out that the federal court also determined that Leafwell’s abuse of process claim against MFG, which alleges that MFG used its initial lawsuit against Leafwell to threaten, intimidate and pressure Leafwell’s business partners to sever their relationships with the company, was sufficient to move forward at this early stage of the case. The ruling means MFG cannot simply characterize the alleged conduct as protected petitioning activity or commentary on matters of public concern; instead, Leafwell will have the opportunity to pursue evidence concerning the purpose and actions underlying MFG’s conduct as the matter proceeds.
“As this latest development in MFG’s second lawsuit demonstrates, My Florida Green went to the press before it went to the facts,” said Emily Fisher, CEO and Founder of Leafwell. “They told our partners we were breaking the law by brokering patients and violating the medical marijuana use act. Now, under oath, MFG has scaled back its patient brokering allegations; because there was none . If a competitor is upset that Floridians can see a licensed clinician and get certified affordably, the answer is to compete on care, cost, and patient education, not on lawsuits. We never stopped operating our business in Florida, and we’re not going anywhere.”
For Fisher, this was never an abstract fight. She founded Leafwell after experiencing firsthand how much cannabis helped her through cancer and built the company to make sure that access and education reached patients who would otherwise go without. The ruling represents a key step in Leafwell’s effort to address what it alleges was a broader campaign of false and damaging statements about the company. Leafwell maintains that MFG’s actions and statements caused reputational and business harm, and the case will now move forward with those allegations subject to further litigation and factual development.
Because litigation remains ongoing, including Leafwell’s own affirmative case against MFG in federal court, Leafwell will limit further comment on the litigation itself to the court record.
Leafwell is a virtual and in-person clinic specializing in cannabis-based care. Leafwell connects patients with licensed clinicians through telemedicine and its Florida clinics to develop cannabis treatment plans supported by ongoing care. Leafwell’s mission is to unlock the full potential of cannabis as evidence-based medicine and expand safe, informed access for millions of Americans.
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