QUALIFYING CONDITIONS

• ALS
• Cancer
• Crohn's disease
• Chronic nonmalignant pain*
• Epilepsy
• Glaucoma
• HIV/AIDS
• Multiple sclerosis
• Parkinson's disease
• PTSD
• Seizures
• Terminal illness (patients diagnosed with no more than 12-months to live)
• Other debilitating medical conditions comparable to those enumerated
  
  *Defined as "pain that is either caused by or originates from a qualifying medical condition"

PATIENT POSSESSION LIMITS

Patients who possess a physician's recommendation may legally obtain medical cannabis provided by state licensed dispensaries. A qualified physician may not issue a physician certification for more than three 70-day supply limits of marijuana. The Department of Health shall quantify by rule a daily dose amount with equivalent dose amounts for each allowable form of marijuana dispensed by a medical marijuana treatment center. Qualified patients are not permitted to possess use, or administer "marijuana in a form for smoking, in the form of commercially produced food items other than edibles, or marijuana seeds or flowers, except for flower in a sealed, tamper-proof receptacle for vaping."

HOME CULTIVATION

No

STATE-LICENSED DISPENSARIES

Yes

STATE-LICENSED DISPENSARIES OPERATIONAL

Dispensaries specializing in low-THC/high-CBD products (defined as at least ten percent CBD and no more than 0.8 percent THC) are now operational.

CAREGIVERS

Yes. A "caregiver" means a person who is at least twenty-one (21) years old who has agreed to assist with a qualifying patient's medical use of marijuana and has qualified for and obtained a caregiver identification card issued by the Department of Health. The Department may limit the number of qualifying patients a caregiver may assist at one time and the number of caregivers that a qualifying patient may have at one time.

ESTIMATED NUMBER OF REGISTERED PATIENTS

• 44,164
• Source: Florida Department of Health

RECIPROCITY

No

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