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| 2/21/2019

"We’re getting closer. The end is in sight, we’re not far."

-- Sen. Jeff Brandes

With several amendments, heated debates and about three weeks to spare, the Senate’s bill to repeal a ban on smokable medical marijuana is headed to the floor before the March 15 deadline set by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

DeSantis in January tasked the Legislature with amending Florida law to allow smoking medical marijuana. If legislators don’t by the deadline, the governor said he will do so with litigation.

Read more at the Miami Herald.

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