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Specifying additional medical conditions that qualify an individual to receive medical marijuana and medical marijuana delivery devices; revising the frequency with which qualified physicians must evaluate existing qualified patients for a physician certification for the medical use of marijuana; requiring the Department of Health to establish procedures and processes for certain nonresidents to register as visiting qualified patients and be issued identification cards within a specified timeframe, etc.
An act relating to medical marijuana; amending s.
3 381.986, F.S.; specifying additional medical
4 conditions that qualify an individual to receive
5 medical marijuana and medical marijuana delivery
6 devices; authorizing qualified physicians to use
7 telehealth to perform the initial certification
8 examination of patients for the medical use of
9 marijuana; conforming provisions related to
10 documentation a qualified physician is required to
11 submit to the Board of Medicine or Board of
12 Osteopathic Medicine, as applicable, to conform to
13 changes made by the act; increasing the number of
14 supply limits of marijuana a qualified physician may
15 issue in a single physician certification for the
16 medical use of marijuana; revising the frequency with
17 which qualified physicians must evaluate existing
18 qualified patients for a physician certification for
19 the medical use of marijuana; conforming provisions to
20 changes made by the act; deleting obsolete language;
21 revising the frequency with which qualified patient
22 and caregiver identification cards must be renewed,
23 from annually to biennially; requiring the Department
24 of Health to establish procedures and processes for
25 certain nonresidents to register as visiting qualified
26 patients and be issued identification cards within a
27 specified timeframe; providing that a visiting
28 qualified patient may engage in all conduct authorized
29 for qualified patients in this state; requiring the
30 department to waive all fees associated with
31 identification cards for certain veterans of the
32 United States Armed Forces; prohibiting medical
33 marijuana treatment center dispensing facilities from
34 being located on the same parcel of land as retail
35 outlets; providing an effective date.