Senate Rules Committee Approves Charlotte's Web Fix

Licenses to grow and dispense medicinal cannabis under last year’s “Charlotte’s Web” law may be coming soon.

The Department of Health would award licenses for medicinal marijuana 75 days after a Charlotte’s Web glitch bill becomes law, according to SPB 7066, a proposal approved Thursday by the Senate Rules Committee.

Rules had been SPB 7066’s last scheduled committee stop.

“The purpose of this bill is straightforward and simple,” said sponsor Sen. Rob Bradley. “It is to fulfill a promise that many of us made last year to young children and their families who captured our hearts and asked us to give them some flexibility and no longer call them criminals when it comes to using a certain form of cannabis,”

The Legislature approved a medicinal cannabis law in 2014, but its implementation has been tied up in court since.

Growers, investors, and regulators have been unable to find common ground on a set...

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