Florida medical marijuana industry awaits âday of reckoningâ from Supreme Court
âThe direction of the industry is at stake,â said former Lieutenant Governor Jeff Kottkamp, one of the lawyers working the high-profile medical marijuana case.
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TALLAHASSEE â After the Florida Supreme Court hears arguments in a case, justices typically try to hand down a ruling within six months.
Although the Court heard final arguments in
Florida Department of Health v. Florigrown nearly eight months ago, it has yet to render a judgment.
Itâs difficult to overstate the stakes of the case. The Court could decide to upend the stateâs medical marijuana regulations, throwing a $1.2 billion industry with several national conglomerates into a state of uncertainty. Lawmakers and bureaucrats would have to rewrite the rules for the industry â potentially from scratch.
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In an advisory opinion issued Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court tossed a proposed ballot measure that would have added a state constitutional amendment legalizing some types of recreational marijuana use. Critics attacked the court’s ruling as a thinly-veiled effort to legislate from the bench.
In a 5-2 decision, Florida’s conservative high court came down against the proposal and struck it from the 2022 ballot on the premise that the initiative’s summary language lacked clarity.
According to the opinion, the ballot initiative’s summary would have read as follows:
Permits adults 21 years or older to possess, use, purchase, display, and transport up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana and marijuana accessories for personal use for any reason. Permits Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers to sell, distribute, or dispense marijuana and marijuana accessories if clearly labeled and in childproof packaging to adults. Prohibits advertising or mark
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