Medical Marijuana

The Tampa-based company challenged the state’s system of requiring licensed medical-marijuana operators to handle all aspects of the cannabis business.

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried said legislation that would allow for adult recreational marijuana would help struggling farmers.

The physicians spoke out after a committee approved a controversial proposal on THC limits being pushed by Republican lawmakers in the state House.

The bill, which places limits on THC in medical marijuana, passed through the House Professions & Public Health Subcommittee by a party-line vote.

A pair of new legislative proposals would place a 10 percent THC cap on smokable marijuana and limit THC levels to 16 percent in other medical-marijuana products, excluding edibles.

Among the measures are a full legalization of marijuana, along with a proposal that would prevent employees from being penalized if they test positive but have a prescription.

The Florida Supreme Court made the unusual move of hearing more arguments in a challenge to a law aimed at implementing a constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana.

About 86 percent of patients received a certification for smoking.

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