Complete Proposed Text of Florida Medical Marijuana Law - Senate Bill
Below is the complete text of the Florida Senate Bill of the proposed
Medical Marijuana Statute in Florida. It will be called:
"An act relating to compassionate use of low-THC cannabis and marijuana."
Florida Medical Marijuana Law - Complete Proposed Text of Senate Bill,
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Sources:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/medical-marijuana-lags-in-the-legislature/2310805
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0406/BillText/Filed/PDF
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0406/BillText/Filed/HTML
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to compassionate use of low-THC
3 cannabis and marijuana; amending s. 381.986, F.S.;
4 defining and redefining terms; authorizing physicians
5 to issue physician certifications to specified
6 patients who meet certain conditions; authorizing
7 physicians to make specific determinations in
8 certifications; requiring physicians to meet certain
9 conditions to be authorized to issue and make
10 determinations in physician certifications; requiring
11 written consent of a parent or legal guardian for the
12 treatment of minors; requiring that certain physicians
13 annually reexamine and reassess patients and update
14 patient information in the compassionate use registry;
15 revising criminal penalties; authorizing a distance
16 learning format for a specified course and reducing
17 the number of hours required for the course; providing
18 that physicians who meet specified requirements are
19 grandfathered for the purpose of specified education
20 requirements; authorizing qualifying patients to
21 designate caregivers; requiring caregivers to meet
22 specified requirements; prohibiting a qualifying
23 patient from designating more than one caregiver at
24 any given time; providing exceptions; requiring the
25 Department of Health to register caregivers meeting
26 certain requirements on the compassionate use
27 registry; revising the entities to which the
28 compassionate use registry must be accessible;
29 requiring the department to adopt certain rules by a
30 specified date; authorizing the department to charge a
31 fee for identification cards; requiring the department
32 to begin issuing identification cards to qualified
33 registrants by a specific date; providing requirements
34 for the identification cards; requiring the department
35 to register certain dispensing organizations as
36 medical marijuana treatment centers by a certain date;
37 requiring the department to register additional
38 medical marijuana treatment centers in accordance with
39 a specified schedule; deleting obsolete provisions;
40 revising the operational requirements for medical
41 marijuana treatment centers; authorizing the
42 department to waive certain requirements under
43 specified circumstances; requiring that certain
44 receptacles be child proof; requiring that additional
45 information be included on certain labels; requiring
46 that a medical marijuana treatment center comply with
47 certain standards in the production and dispensing of
48 edible or food products; requiring a medical marijuana
49 treatment center to enter additional information into
50 the compassionate use registry; requiring a medical
51 marijuana treatment center to keep a copy of a
52 transportation manifest in certain vehicles at certain
53 times; requiring the department to adopt rules related
54 to ownership changes or changes in an owner’s
55 investment interest; providing applicability;
56 conforming provisions to changes made by the act;
57 amending ss. 381.987, 385.211, 499.0295, and 1004.441,
58 F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the
59 act; providing an effective date.
