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A Democratic lawmaker in Florida wants medical cannabis patients in the state to have easier access to the treatment. That is one of the goals behind a bill being introduced by state House Representative Andrew Learned as Florida's legislative session opened on Tuesday. Learned's proposal, House Bill 679, "would change Florida's medical cannabis program, offering several technical clarifications," local television station WFTS explained. Among those changes, the bill "would reduce costs for people by requiring fewer doctor's visits, allow patients to keep their registration cards for two years instead of one and give people the option to use telehealth to refill their prescriptions," according to WFTS. Moreover, the bill would implement regulations on the sale of Delta-8, the hemp extract that is known to yield a similar high to cannabis with Delta-9 THC and that has become ubiquitous in the years since the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, which effectively legalized hemp on the federal level.  Learned told the station that "the first thing to understand about [the bill] is this is the first bipartisan marijuana package we've really run as a state in five years since the constitutional amendment passed."  "Just getting both sides to agree on a way forward, I count this as a win already," Learned said. "This does things like, again, like keeping harmful products out of the hands of children, it's making sure that we clean up advertising statues so we aren't inadvertently advertising medical marijuana products in general to minors," Learned continued. "It's improving the program from a practical use perspective like I said with telehealth but also things like DUI testing and creating testing councils for that. Making sure products are safe and that a hemp product for example, like a CBD really is a CBD. Right now there's no testing requirement…

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