Florida lawmakers to consider bill limiting amount of THC in medical marijuana

TALLAHASSEE – Many Republican lawmakers in Florida haven’t hidden their skepticism about the use of marijuana as a medical palliative.

After voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment broadly legalizing medical marijuana in 2016, the Republican-controlled Legislature grudgingly laid out a framework for a cannabis industry that has since drawn hundreds of thousands of patients.

But, after first outlawing smokable marijuana and then reversing the ban at the insistence of Gov. Ron DeSantis two years ago, GOP lawmakers continue trying to rein in Floridians’ legal use of cannabis.