FL: Legislature fails to pass medical marijuana

Sun Sentinel: With less than three hours left in the legislative session, the Senate refused to hear a new medical marijuana proposal from the House, effectively killing legislation that had been negotiated over months between the two chambers.

It will now be up to the Florida Department of Health to produce rules and regulations governing the medical marijuana industry created by voters with their approval of a constitutional amendment in November.

And those rules — especially a proposed ban on smoking — will be far easier for activists to challenge in court, as some have already threatened to do.

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