Florida

[Dreger_US]

30 days ago:
It seems that even though the bill passed the only options are liquid extracted forms. I think the two programs are one to be consumed orally and the other to be vaped but it's a liquid. Not not happy. But I have to wait 30 more days until I get more information.

Today:
I feel ashamed. beaten down. treated like a criminal
my body can't take the pain meds. i have so many medical issues. I'm deteriorating. pt just gives me barely enough to overcome the loss. i feel bad

i don't feel like i have much time left

90 days completed and doctor has just submitted the necessary documents to the university as required by the state. Im f****** dying and all these people don't care. God help me please show mercy please.

My disability is severe so when I go I have to cover for a long duration. im not mobile anymore, nor can i sit. its been tough. I'm at the end of my stash now, I was really hoping that I could get it the right way. And some consistency. I was actually looking forward to the oral version. Even vaping now it's becoming difficult my lungs can't keep up. I'm hurting really bad. sorry I'll let you guys know if anything changes

 

[Baron23]

30 days ago:
It seems that even though the bill passed the only options are liquid extracted forms. I think the two programs are one to be consumed orally and the other to be vaped but it's a liquid. Not not happy. But I have to wait 30 more days until I get more information.

Today:
I feel ashamed. beaten down. treated like a criminal
my body can't take the pain meds. i have so many medical issues. I'm deteriorating. pt just gives me barely enough to overcome the loss. i feel bad

i don't feel like i have much time left

90 days completed and doctor has just submitted the necessary documents to the university as required by the state. Im f****** dying and all these people don't care. God help me please show mercy please.

My disability is severe so when I go I have to cover for a long duration. im not mobile anymore, nor can i sit. its been tough. I'm at the end of my stash now, I was really hoping that I could get it the right way. And some consistency. I was actually looking forward to the oral version. Even vaping now it's becoming difficult my lungs can't keep up. I'm hurting really bad. sorry I'll let you guys know if anything changes

Your are right, they don't care. Politicians are the lowest form of life on this planet and I would far prefer that my son become an honest car thief than a politician.

As you probably know this, although the amendment passed, no rules or regulations have yet been put into place and they are operating under existing rules/regs, to include the extremely limited form of MJ allowed, but with the expanded list of applicable conditions.

Now I'm no saint and the religious most likely would say I'm going to hell. But I fully expect to see everyone of these fucking self-serving political assholes there with me. In my state of Maryland we are now approaching four years....FOUR YEARS....after our MMJ law passed and still no patient registry and still no open dispensaries. The most galling part is we pay these assholes for this complete lack of responsive service.

You say you think you are near the end....really? I'm so, so sorry to hear of your suffering and your fears. Do you care to share with us what your condition(s) are as there may be someone who reads it who has had similar experience and may be able to share with you? If not, completely understandable as this is totally private information.

Fuck the politicians and faceless bureaucrats , do what we have been doing for decades and buy on the black market. End of story. What are they going to do to you?

This is an interesting article on the subject:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article124393619.html

Excerpted:

The passage of Amendment 2 by an overwhelming margin in November changed Florida’s constitution to allow more people to use higher-strength medical marijuana as of Tuesday. But don’t expect to be able to ask your doctor for a weed prescription this week — or even this month.

The Florida Legislature and Department of Health still have to work out rules and regulations that will govern the state’s nascent medical marijuana industry.

Yet already, about 200 doctors in Florida are qualified to prescribe marijuana, and their patients — eager for a new antidote to their pains, nausea and other ailments — are asking questions.

“There are many patients with cancer, neurological disorders or serious digestive problems that are waiting with hope of using a natural product,” said Silvia Bentancor, an internist who has a private, cannabis-based practice at CBD Clinic in Southwest Miami-Dade.

Under a 2014 law that legalized a limited form of medical marijuana, patient don’t have access to medical marijuana until they’ve been seeing their doctor for at least three months. Bentancor, who is among those 200 doctors, said she’s already starting to see new patients who want to establish a relationship now.

Marijuana growers and dispensaries, like South Florida’s Modern Health Concepts, have also heard from a growing number of patients newly covered under the amendment.

“We get dozens of inquiries on a daily basis,” said CEO Richard Young.

He said his company is poised to meet demand, but without guidance from the Legislature, it’s unclear if doctors can begin prescribing marijuana to newly covered patients before all the rules are worked out.

“The notion that medical marijuana [amendment] becomes effective is a little anticlimactic,” said Ben Pollara, executive chairman of advocacy group Florida for Care. “It’s effective as a point of law. But before anybody can see access to medical marijuana under this new law, there needs to be rulemaking and regulations passed by the Legislature.”

That industry is already operating under law passed in 2014 that permitted the growth and use of low-strength cannabis for people with a very limited number of specific conditions — including cancer or a physical medical condition that causes chronic spasms and seizures.

Medical cannabis products, which have a larger dose of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the chemical that gives a user a “high,” are currently available only to patients who have been certified terminally ill by two doctors.

Now that Amendment 2 is in effect, the list of approved conditions for medical marijuana has expanded to:

▪ Cancer
▪ Epilepsy
▪ Glaucoma
▪ HIV\
▪ AIDS
▪ Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
▪ Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease)
▪ Crohn’s disease
▪ Parkinson’s disease
▪ Multiple sclerosis

But as the law stands, the expanded group of patients have access to the same format of medicine as before — oils, tinctures and capsules. No existing Florida law allows smokeable marijuana for patients; Amendment 2 doesn’t specifically address smokeable marijuana, so it’s unclear if it will be allowed. (cont) — from the Miami Herald

 

[RUDE BOY]

I'm in Florida too, but there is no access to any form of medical marijuana for regular adult patients as they haven't started the mmj program yet.

I believe the liquid you speak of is "Charlotte's Web cbd oil" for children who have severe seizures.

I know I've heard nothing on how we'll apply to get a card or whatever when the time comes but I believe we are many months away from actually being a legal MMJ state.