FLORIDA — Medical marijuana and the ban on smoking it in Florida are heading back to the state Senate on Wednesday.
- Bill focuses on such things like if patients can roll them
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Legislators are considering a number of changes to the state's medical marijuana laws, including how patients are prescribed the drug.
Currently, there are bills in both the House and Senate surrounding the marijuana-smoking ban.
The bills address matters like how many doctors must sign-off before a patient is prescribed marijuana and whether or not it will be legal for patients to roll their own joints.
A few weeks ago, the Senate's top health committee passed a bill that would require two doctors to certify that a patient's only effective means of treatment would be smoking the drug.
Critics say that requirement would be too restrictive.
The bill's sponsor, Republican State Sen. Jeff Brandes, who represents the Pinellas County area, is pledging to repeal that language on Wednesday when the bill is considered by the rules committee or when the bill hits the Senate floor.
Meanwhile, the House is taking its own approach to the issue.
Last week, a bill was passed that would ban patients from rolling their own joints and they would have to buy pre-rolled filtered ones from a dispensary.
Which raised eyebrows among critics who believe that policy was a play for the medical marijuana dispensary industry.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has been very vocal about his stance on the smoking ban. Last month, he demanded that lawmakers eliminate the smoking ban.