The new bill from the 2025 Florida Legislative Council proposes changes to the state’s medical marijuana program, including allowing for increased eligible medical conditions and limited home-grown bills. Appeal and Marketing
Despite winning a large portion of Florida, the amendment to legalize Florida’s recreational marijuana failed last November.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has been following it hard, fighting the money of millions of taxpayers against corrections in an ad onslaught – some have suspicious claims, and multiple daily appearances.
Smart & Safe Florida, the group behind the 2024 amendment, is preparing to retry in 2026 with a new version that fixes some of the complaints Desantis and other critics had about the last critics. I’m moving forward. The ownership limit has also been reduced from 3 oz to 2, but also removes state restrictions that prevent small businesses from competing with larger companies like Trulieve and Curaleaf.
But that’s been a year and a half. This year, we will be making major changes to the state’s popular medical marijuana program, including expanding eligible medical conditions and allowing patients to grow their own plants. That bill has been introduced.
This is what comes.
New marijuana bill submitted to the Florida 2025 legislative session
SB 142/HB 83: Protection of civil servants using medical marijuana as qualified patients
Under this bill, public employers will file a personnel action against the employee or job seeker for the use of medical marijuana if the employee or job seeker is a qualified patient. It is prohibited. There are exceptions for employees whose ability to do their job is compromised.
SB 146: custody protection
The court prohibits denying or restricting certain custody based solely on the parent’s status as a qualified patient for the purposes of using medical marijuana, and based solely on the parent’s status as a qualified patient. Prohibits negligence or presumption of child risk.
SB 226: Smoking in public places
The bill, brought back again after attempts over the past few years, would ban all smoking in public places, except for airport customs smoking rooms. Smoking or vaping marijuana in public is prohibited everywhere. Smoking unfiltered cigars in public places is not prohibited. Coincidentally, Florida has a long history of cigar production, and the cigar lobby has a strong ally in Tallahassee, according to the Tallahassee Democrats.
SB 512: Medical marijuana eating
To require specific labeling of products, we amend the state’s edible marijuana labeling laws to require more information such as nutritional facts and allergens to be included in the container.
SB 546: Home cultivation of marijuana
The bill allows qualified medical marijuana patients to apply to the Ministry of Agriculture and Consumer Services for certificates to grow up to two cannabis plants for personal consumption.
Restrictions apply. No matter how many qualified patients live there, only two will be permitted in any residence. Replaces the previous bill, SB 334. This also addressed hemp extraction sales, but was withdrawn before it was introduced.
SB 552 / HB 555: Medical marijuana
SB 552 is a major extension of Florida’s medical marijuana law. Among other things, the bill is as follows:
By expanding the list of eligible medical conditions to those whose patients have been prescribed opioids (no specific conditions mentioned in the bill), telehealth appointments for early and renewal trials are subject to marijuana for smoking The amount of the amount may be issued in the form of smoking: 70 – Sunday supply limit increased from 6 to 20 increase in the period between 30 weeks and 104 physician evaluations. In a few weeks that increased to 1035, your ID card must be updated every two years to visit medical marijuana patients out of state. Same land as a retailer
SB 778: Qualified medical conditions for marijuana medical use
Relying on or relying on opioid drugs for a list of eligibility requirements for medical marijuana.
Florida buildings crack in hemp extract
An additional bill, HB 601, adds more restrictions to hemp extraction products. This is a product with milder psychoactive effects than marijuana, also known as “diet weeds,” available at retail stores.
Establishment of hemp extract product establishment, for retail sales of steam zones to people under the age of 21, total delta-9-tetrahydrocannabis of 25 milligrams per serving or 500 milligrams per container on dry weight basis or 3 ml. The concentration of the nol may not exceed. Packaging for enticing packaging for children and packaging similar to other common snacks and foods sold to children, recommended diet sizes, and for national poisons The toll-free number phone number “advertises the health benefits of “requiring that pediatric resistant containers to eliminate retailers” unless expressly permitted by the US Food and Drug Administration. Help to bing Stores display and sell manufacturers, distributors, retailers who sell manufacturers, distributors, retailers, to maintain inventory records for three years after the sale or disposal of the product. It can place $2 million for testing equipment, $25 million for investigation of hemp and hemp extract products manufactured in “foreign concerns” and imported into the US
(This story has been updated with new information.)
