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A new Florida rule revokes medical marijuana cards for patients convicted of illegal drug possession.

Over 160 Florida medical marijuana patients have either lost or are at risk of losing access to their medicine.

Advocates argue the law is punitive, comparing it to denying essential medicine for a criminal offense.

More than 160 Florida medical marijuana patients arrested for drug convictions either have lost – or are in jeopardy of losing – access to their cannabis-based medicine under a rule the Florida Department of Health put in effect this summer.

Bobbie Smith, director of the Office of Medical Marijuana updated the Health Professions and Programs Subcommittee Oct. 15 on the results of a medical marijuana restriction the Legislature approved in 2025.

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