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The logistics of growing and dispensing non euphoric marijuana moved one step closer to realty with what is supposed to be the final hearing by the state today, but as Mike Vasilinda tells us, implementing this springs legislation on time is far from certain.The rules for picking growers and dispensing organizations for non euphoric CBD marijuana are supposed to be in place this fall. Warren Powell from Florida Marijuana Patients.com took issue with transportation issues.

“You can’t expect cancer patients to drive four hours to get medicine” said Powell.

Dozens of people raised concerns at this public hearing about how the state is proceeding. Louis Rotundo has formed the Florida Medical Cannabis Association and took issue with licenses being issued by a lottery. “If you want to stick with a lottery, and I’m not a fan of that, you can not allow the system to be gamed.” Rotundo contends the lottery rule allows nurseries and growers to get their name in the hat multiple times.

But it was two mothers who continue to show up and say they want the state to get it right…and get it right quickly. Holly Mosley of Gulf Breeze lead the fight for medical marijuana in the legislative area. She is the mother of an epileptic child.  “I’m here as a mother today, who daily struggles with a child with epilepsy. There is a patient, two weeks ago, who passed away from seizures” said Mosley, whose daughter Ray Ann can have hundreds of seizures a day.

Clouding the future is a19 page letter from a legislative oversight committee, pointing out differences between the proposed rule and what the law actually says.

We asked Louis Rutundo is the letter has made a legal challenge certain. He responded: ,“I fell like after the JAPC letter, that it has become very problematic that this rule, in this form, can survive a legal challenge.”

A challenge would slow the rule down until voters decide a broader medical marijuana amendment And that’s what many growers want…but not parents, including Holly Mosley. “There are children’s lives at stake. Um, so we don’t have time to think big picture, and think money, and all of that.”

There have been two workshops  and now a public hearing, yet there are as many unanswered questions as there have ever been.

The first low THC marijuana isn’t expected until late spring at the earliest.

The very narrowly written law calls for growers to be picked and licensed by the end of the year. Any challenge could delay the timetable, delaying CBD’s availability.