If you haven’t looked into it, you may assume that it is legal to possess marijuana in Florida. Not so fast. This isn’t California. First of all, you can’t get smokable marijuana from a dispensary in Florida. It is only pills and lotions. Secondly, the only way you can get high THC versions of the product, you have to have a statement from a physician that you are terminally ill.

PATIENT POSSESSION LIMITS

Patients who possess a physician’s recommendation may legally obtain medical cannabis provided by state licensed dispensaries. A qualified physician may not issue a physician certification for more than three 70-day supply limits of marijuana. The Department of Health shall quantify by rule a daily dose amount with equivalent dose amounts for each allowable form of marijuana dispensed by a medical marijuana treatment center. Qualified patients are not permitted to possess use, or administer “marijuana in a form for smoking, in the form of commercially produced food items other than edibles, or marijuana seeds or flowers, except for flower in a sealed, tamper-proof receptacle for vaping.”

HOME CULTIVATION

No

STATE-LICENSED DISPENSARIES

Yes

STATE-LICENSED DISPENSARIES OPERATIONAL

Dispensaries specializing in low-THC/high-CBD products (defined as at least ten percent CBD and no more than 0.8 percent THC) are now operational.

CAREGIVERS

Yes. A “caregiver” means a person who is at least twenty-one (21) years old who has agreed to assist with a qualifying patient’s medical use of marijuana and has qualified for and obtained a caregiver identification card issued by the Department of Health. The Department may limit the number of qualifying patients a caregiver may assist at one time and the number of caregivers that a qualifying patient may have at one time.
Instead, this iteration sought to expand the category of ailments that allow a person access to high-THC cannabis from only those with terminal illness to include the following debilitating medical conditions:

Cancer
Epilepsy
Glaucoma
+ Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
+ Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Crohn’s disease
Parkinson’s disease
Multiple sclerosis

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