TALLAHASSEE — Almost a year-and-a-half since Gov. Rick Scott and state lawmakers legalized a form of medical marijuana, the latest deadline for making it available to Floridians has gone up in smoke.
Again.
“I have gotten so very angry,” said Ava Pence, a Palm Beach Gardens teacher whose 9-year-old daughter, Meredith, suffers from Dravet syndrome, a severe epilepsy.
“It just feels like it’s been a terrible betrayal. We once thought we were going to be taken care of,” she said. “Now, we just don’t know.”
Cancer patients, as well as those suffering seizures as Pence’s daughter does, were supposed to be able to obtain a non-euphoric marijuana oil dubbed Charlotte’s Web beginning Jan. 1, 2015. But crafting regulations for a new Florida marijuana industry has stalled the introduction.
