The Florida House passed its second medical marijuana bill in three years Thursday.
Legislators acknowledged that Rep. Matt Gaetz's bill (HB 307) is not a panacea for all of the problems that have arisen the past two years, but that it does make significant progress.
The bill, which passed with a 99-16 vote, expands the Right to Try act allowing near-death patients to use nonsmokable marijuana of all strengths and doses. It also adds regulations for dispensing organizations, patients and physicians covered by the 2014 Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act.
"I wish we could go and pick a regulatory model and say that is the yellow brick road, that's what works, and copy it,'' Gaetz said.
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