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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 From Charlotte's Web to Right to Try: Florida Medical Marijuana's Past, Present and Future 🌿From Charlotte's Web to Right to Try: Florida Medical Marijuana's Past, Present and Future
Twenty three states, plus the District of Columbia and Guam, have some form of law allowing patients to use medical marijuana. Florida is among those states, but so far, patients have not been able to access the drug.
90.7 Health Reporter Abe Aboraya spoke with Intersection Host Matthew Peddie.
PEDDIE: I want to start with some background because there is a lot of confusion out there. Is medical marijuana legal in Florida?
ABE: Yes. Kinda. It’s complicated. So last summer Gov. Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 1030, the Compassionate Medical Use act. This became known as the Charlotte’s Web bill. Now what this did was legalize a very specific strain of medical marijuana.
PEDDIE: This is for children with epilepsy, right? This came after Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s big CNN Special.
ABE: Absolutely. This is a low-THC medical marijuana, so it doesn’t get have the psychoactive effects. But it has high levels of cannabidiol, or CBD....
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