TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – After a lengthy discussion about problems with a 2014 cannabis law, a Senate committee has approved a bill that would allow patients with terminal illnesses to have access to medical marijuana.
The Senate Fiscal Policy Committee’s vote on the bill, which was filed by Sen. Rob Bradley, clears the way for the issue to go to the Senate floor. The bill would expand a 2015 law, known as the “Right to Try Act,” which allows terminally ill patients to have access to experimental drugs that have not been approved for general use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Most of Thursday’s debate focused on the state’s problems in carrying out a 2014 law that allowed limited types of non-euphoric cannabis for patients such as children with severe forms of epilepsy. The substances remain unavailable, at least in part because of legal fights about the selection of five nurseries to receive licenses to cultivate, process and distribute the cannabis.
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"Right to Try" Cannabis Bill Advances in Florida
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