More Than 41,000 Demand Publix Heiress Stop Fighting Medical Marijuana
When New Times sat down with medical-marijuana advocate and political consultant Ben Pollara earlier this month, Pollara said he wasn't concerned that Carol Jenkins Barnett, daughter of Publix founder George Jenkins, had donated $800,000 to a group trying to keep medicinal weed illegal.
"I still think 'shopping is a pleasure,'" Pollara said, referencing the grocery store chain's famous slogan.
But it turns out tens of thousands of people don't quite agree with one of the loudest medical marijuana advocates in the state. As Monday morning, more than 41,000 people have signed a Change.org petition demanding that Jenkins Barnett stop using the chain's profits to "fund your political beliefs."
The petition was started by Heidi Handford, who is married to Irvin Rosenfeld, one of America's first medical marijuana patients.
"I never thought buying groceries could be a political statement," Handford writes. "That is, until I realized the family that...
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