Four months after Florida passed Amendment 2, which passed with 71 percent of the vote in November legislators discuss implementation and review marijuana rules and processes. The Florida senate is exploring multiple versions of medical marijuana legislation.
“What began as a decisive instruction from voters that patients who need medical marijuana should have access to it is shaping up to be a complex and contentious fight.Florida House’s lone medical marijuana bill (HB 1397) outlines a more restrictive approach, banning smoking and edibles, as well as “vaping,” which is allowed under a current law passed in 2014 that lets some patients with severe epilepsy and cancer use cannabis low in the chemical THC, which causes a euphoric high.”
(SB 406) addresses questions of qualifying conditions beyond the original 10 listed, and whether or not to include chronic pain.
Also addressed by legislators is licensing structures for marijuana operators and if one business can complete the seed to sale process efficiently.
Under current rules, cannabis businesses are required to be a one stop shop, cultivators, processors and sellers.
(SB 614), filed by Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, allowed for businesses to specialize as growers or sellers.
House leadership have endorsed keeping the existing structures.
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