Florida Medical Marijuana Laws Challenged Again
Florida Medical Marijuana Laws Challenged Again! Another judge rules in favor of more accessible medical marijuana.
In addition to lawsuits about smoking medical marijuana, growing your own marijuana, allowing more companies to open up dispensaries, we now have an initial victory by Trulieve, a Florida medical marijuana dispensary, that would allow them to open more locations than currently limited to. Will the State appeal? Rick DeSantis has previously stated that he doesn’t want to continue defending the medical marijuana law in the same manner as his predecessor, Rick Scott.
“Just as the Legislature has not tried to limit the number of pharmacies — whether free-standing ones such as CVS, Rite-Aid and Walgreens, or contained within other stores like Publix, Walmart and so on — the voters provided no cap or ceiling” on how many stores marijuana providers can open, Judge Karen Gievers added.
Gievers further called the 2016 amendment a “game changer,” with which state health officials and lawmakers “were obligated to comply.”
“The Constitution matters,” she wrote. “Our lawmakers and executive branch agencies should have acted — and should continue acting — so that their conduct is consistent with the law, including the constitutional provisions the voters choose as the highest law of the land.”
“Regrettably, they have not complied, ignoring the citizen’s clear mandate, and the fact that compliance (with the state constitution) is mandatory, not merely a citizen suggestion or request.”
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Author: Scott Lawrence
Scott is a cannabis fan, enjoying the experience as much as the feeling.