A new bill would prohibit the use of marijuana — smoking, ingesting, and vaporizing purposes — for all patients except those that are terminally ill.
Representative Ray Rodrigues revealed these proposed medical marijuana regulations Tuesday. They prove to be even more restrictive than the laws that existed before 72 percent of Floridians voted to legalize medical marijuana.
Specifically, the new amendment says medical use does not include "possession, use, or administration of marijuana in a form for smoking or vaping or in the form of commercially produced food items made with marijuana or marijuana oils, except for vapable forms possessed, used, or administered by or for a qualified patient diagnosed with a terminal condition."
Lawmakers included rules mandating a medical cannabis patient submit his or her state driver's license and a second form of ID to obtain approved for medicinal weed. Patients can have their medical-pot licenses suspended if they're charged of any drug offense, and the state can also revoke pot licenses once a patient is deemed to be "cured."
Prior last year's legalization vote, the state had already allowed low-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) cannabis derivatives for terminally ill people. Doctors could register on a state database and administer low-THC, high-cannabidiol medicines to patients in need.