company donate at least $25 million a year to a host of charities. After orchestrating a $250,000 donation to help the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Jenkins Barnett reportedly stepped down from her position on the company's board after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's in June.



Though a Publix spokesperson told New Times the donation to Drug Free Florida was not made in Publix's name, but was instead a personal choice by Jenkins Barnett, that fact has not stopped Floridians from directing ire at the grocery chain. Marijuana activists have begun picketing outside Publix stores, both at the company's Lakeland headquarters and outside multiple supermarkets in Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Many critics point to the fact that, although Publix itself is not supporting the fightagainst medical marijuana, the money Jenkins Barnett used likely came from the company's profits.

"Publix’s donation to Drug Free Florida finances a campaign against medical marijuana, a therapy my spouse has successfully used for over 30 years to treat his rare bone disorder," Handford, the petitioner, wrote.

She said Rosenfeld, her spouse, was the "longest surviving federal medical marijuana patient in the nation." In 2015, the Los Angeles Times reported that Rosenfeld, who smokes nearly ten joints a day to cope with a rare bone disorder, was one of the few surviving patients left receiving federal medical marijuana as part of a program the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration began running in 1976. In the 1990s, George H.W. Bush's administration halted the program, and Rosenfeld remains one of the few people