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Dept. Of Health Says Pot Rule Challenge Will Lead To Delay
March 14, 2015
Already behind in carrying out a new medical-marijuana law, the Florida Department of Health said it is concerned that a legal challenge filed this week will lead to further delay.
A Jacksonville attorney, on behalf of a 4-year-old child with an inoperable brain tumor, challenged a proposed Department of Health rule that would provide a regulatory framework for the new industry.
“This legal action will unfortunately delay the department’s attempts to deliver this product, already authorized by the Florida Legislature, to Florida’s children and patients who need it,” the department said in a statement posted on its website. “The department will review the challenge immediately and act promptly to move the process forward.”
The law allows strains of medical marijuana that are low in euphoria-inducing tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, and high in cannabadiol, or CBD. The challenge filed this week takes issue with the way the department proposes selecting five “dispensing organizations,” which would grow, process and dispense the cannabis. It said the proposed rule lacks minimum standards for the dispensing organizations and does not provide assurances to patients about statewide access to the drugs.
But the department has defended the rule.
“We have maintained an unprecedented, open process for developing this rule framework,” Patricia Nelson, director of the department’s Office of Compassionate Use, said in the prepared statement. “The department will take every possible action to minimize the delay this rule challenge has created in getting this product to Florida’s children who need it.”
The law required the department to have selected the dispensing organizations by January 1, but a legal challenge to an earlier version of the rule created a delay.
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2 Responses to “Dept. Of Health Says Pot Rule Challenge Will Lead To Delay”
They are taking their dear sweet time and all the kids needing it. Did you know you can get Charlotte’s Web out of state and have it in your possession in Florida with a Florida Rx?
Good thing I do not wait on the Government/State of Florida to make my health and well being choices.
Holding our breath.
For a few seconds anyway.