Florida Senate - 2025                                     SB 778
       
       
        
       By Senator Smith
       
       
       
       
       
       17-00985-25                                            2025778__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to qualifying medical conditions for
    3         medical use of marijuana; amending s. 381.986, F.S.;
    4         revising the list of qualifying medical conditions for
    5         the medical use of marijuana to include an addiction
    6         to or dependence on an opioid drug; providing an
    7         effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Paragraph (n) is added to subsection (2) of
   12  section 381.986, Florida Statutes, to read:
   13         381.986 Medical use of marijuana.—
   14         (2) QUALIFYING MEDICAL CONDITIONS.—A patient must be
   15  diagnosed with at least one of the following conditions to
   16  qualify to receive marijuana or a marijuana delivery device:
   17         (n) An addiction to or dependence on an opioid drug.
   18         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.