Judge Sets Hearing In Medical Marijuana Debate

March 21, 2015

Administrative Law Judge Elizabeth McArthur has scheduled an April 14 hearing in a legal challenge to a proposed regulatory framework for the state’s new medical-marijuana industry, according to a document posted on the state Division of Administrative Hearings website.

The case challenges a proposed Department of Health rule for carrying out a 2014 law that would make available a limited type of medical marijuana. A Jacksonville attorney filed the challenge on behalf of 4-year-old Dahlia Barnhart, who has an inoperable brain tumor.

The challenge alleges that the department did not follow the law in drawing up the rule, in part taking issue with the way the department proposes selecting five “dispensing organizations,” which would grow, process and dispense the cannabis.

In November, another administrative law judge rejected the department’s first attempt at a rule to carry out the law, which allows a type of marijuana that is low in euphoria-inducing tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, and high in cannabadiol, or CBD.

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  1. shaun on March 23rd, 2015 9:16 am

    I have epilepsy which I have 6 types of seizures which the amount of meds I take to control them runs about 1400$ month with bad side effects I think this is ridiculous, this country has went to hell these law makers n judges wouldn’t care if they could kill people from it like these meds do. Sell alcohol its OK if they drive drunk n kill SB u never hears of SB dying from a this. Oh well Karma get these folks

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