{"id":13983,"date":"2019-03-18T17:41:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T21:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lcpllutzlivetotell.org\/?p=13983"},"modified":"2019-08-08T12:27:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T16:27:56","slug":"florida-gov-ron-desantis-signs-smokable-medical-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/?p=13983","title":{"rendered":"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs smokable medical marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By: Gray Rohrer<\/a><\/span>Contact Reporter<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Tallahassee Bureau<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

March 18, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

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TALLAHASSEE \u2013 Eligible patients who are ordered medical marijuana by their doctors will be able to smoke the substance legally, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday.<\/p>\n

The bill (SB 182) is the first of DeSantis\u2019 short tenure, and an early legislative victory. DeSantis insisted that lawmakers to pass a measure repealing the state\u2019s ban on smokable medical marijuana by last Friday, or he would drop the state\u2019s appeal of an ongoing lawsuit over the ban.<\/p>\n

More than 70 percent of voters approved a ballot measure in 2016 legalizing marijuana for medical use, but the Legislature passed a bill setting up a program to administer it a year later that nevertheless banned it in smokable forms.<\/p>\n

Orlando attorney John Morgan, who bankrolled the push to put the measure on the ballot, filed suit, saying the intent of the amendment allowed for smokable marijuana. A lower court agreed but Gov. Rick Scott, DeSantis\u2019 predecessor, appealed the ruling last year.<\/p>\n