Data as of 2026-06-05

Florida

Florida is a medical-only cannabis state. Voters approved full medical cannabis through Amendment 2 on November 8, 2016, with 71.3 percent, effective January 3, 2017; legal sales predate that effective date — the first in-store sale occurred on July 26, 2016, under the state's 2014 low-THC statute, before the constitutional medical program took effect. Adult use is not legal: Amendment 3 drew 55.9 percent in November 2024, short of Florida's 60 percent supermajority requirement. The registry held 930,513 active qualified patients as of June 5, 2026, roughly 4.0 percent of residents, up from 167,211 at the end of 2018. The state does not publish dollar sales; its public record is volumetric. Weekly THC dispensed rose from roughly 89 million milligrams at the end of 2019 to roughly 481 million at the end of 2025, and weekly smokable-flower volume rose from roughly 20,000 ounces to roughly 155,000 ounces over the same window. The market is supplied by 28 vertically integrated licensees, 22 of them operational, running 767 dispensing locations — 3.28 per 100,000 residents. Medical cannabis is fully tax-exempt. Criminal penalties for non-patient possession are unchanged from the pre-legalization era.

Market

Licensing & Market

Florida licenses cannabis businesses through a single vertically integrated license the statute calls a Medical Marijuana Treatment Center (MMTC), which must cultivate, process, and dispense its own product and may not contract those functions out (Fla. Stat. §381.986(8)(e)). Because one license covers all three functions, the cultivation-license count, retail-license count, and MMTC count are the same number: 28 awarded, 22 operational — an activation rate of 78.6 percent. Those 22 operators run 767 dispensing locations, 3.28 per 100,000 residents; there are 0.9 operating cultivators per million residents. Licensure is capped and tied to the patient registry: the department licenses four additional MMTCs within six months of each additional 100,000 active qualified patients (§381.986(8)(a)). Licenses are transferable subject to department approval. There is no owner-residency requirement; instead the applicant entity must have been registered to do business in Florida for the five years before applying. Local governments may ban dispensing facilities by ordinance under §381.986(11) but, if they allow them, may not cap their number or regulate beyond pharmacy-equivalent siting; no state agency publishes a registry of which of Florida's 411 municipalities or 67 counties have banned, so an opt-out count cannot be sourced. The single MMTC application fee is $60,063. The state tracks product through BioTrack.

Field Value Source
Cultivator licenses awarded 28 [7]
Cultivator licenses operational 22 [8]
Cultivator activation rate 78.6% [9]
Operating cultivators per million 0.9 [10]
Retail licenses awarded 28 [11]
Retail licenses operational 22 [12]
Retail activation rate 78.6% [9]
Dispensaries per 100k 3.28 [13]
Vertical integration required [14]
License caps exist Yes [15]
Licenses transferable Yes [16]
Residency required No [17]
Residency duration (months) Not available in the public record —
Municipalities allowing Not available in the public record —
Municipalities total 411 [18]
Municipal opt-in rate Not available in the public record —
Track-and-trace system BioTrack [19]
Cultivator application fee $60,063 [20]
Cultivator annual fee Not available in the public record —
Retail application fee $60,063 [21]
Retail annual fee Not available in the public record —
Consumers

Consumer Rules

Access is limited to registered medical patients; there is no adult-use channel. Patients may possess up to 2.5 ounces of smokable flower per 35-day supply period, and home cultivation is not permitted. Non-smokable routes are capped by THC milligrams rather than by weight — edibles at 60 milligrams per day, with separate daily and 70-day caps for vape, capsule, tincture, sublingual, suppository, and topical forms. All major product forms are legal for patients, including smokable flower (permitted since 2019 under SB 182), vape, edibles, capsules, tinctures, and topicals; edibles carry shape and potency restrictions. Delivery is legal and operational statewide, though the state does not publish a standalone count of delivery services. Consumption lounges and other on-site or social consumption are not authorized.

Field Value Source
Home grow allowed No [22]
Home grow plant limit Not available in the public record —
Possession limit (oz) 2.5 [23]
Delivery legal Yes [24]
Delivery operational Yes [25]
Consumption lounges legal No [26]
Consumption lounges count Not available in the public record —
Purchase limit, flower (oz) 2.5 [27]
Purchase limit, concentrate (g) Not available in the public record —
Purchase limit, edibles (mg) 60 [28]
All product forms legal Yes [29]
Restricted product forms Medical-patient access only. All major delivery forms permitted (whole-flower/smokable since 2019 SB 182, vape, edibles, capsules, tinctures, sublingual, suppository, topical), but each non-smokable route carries a daily and 70-day THC milligram cap and edibles are subject to shape/potency restrictions. No adult-use/recreational forms exist. [30]
Taxes

Taxation

Medical cannabis in Florida is fully tax-exempt. Section 212.08(2)(l) exempts cannabis and cannabis delivery devices from the state's Chapter 212 tax, so no excise tax, no sales or use tax, no potency tax, and no local cannabis tax apply — a total effective consumer rate of zero. The exemption has been in place since enactment (SB 8A, 2017) and is unchanged. Because the product is untaxed, Florida collects no cannabis tax revenue; the absence of a revenue figure is a consequence of the exemption, not a gap in reporting. MMTC application and biennial-renewal fees flow to the Medical Marijuana Use Trust Fund, but the state does not publish an annual fee-revenue total.

Field Value Source
Excise tax 0% [31]
Excise tax type none [32]
Sales tax 0% [33]
Wholesale tax Not available in the public record —
Potency tax exists No [34]
Potency tax, flower Not available in the public record —
Potency tax, concentrate Not available in the public record —
Potency tax, edibles Not available in the public record —
Local tax (max) Not available in the public record —
Local tax (typical) Not available in the public record —
Total effective rate 0% [35]
Medical tax exempt Yes [36]
Medical tax rate Not available in the public record —
Annual tax revenue Not available in the public record —
Tax revenue per capita Not available in the public record —
Tax changed since legalization No [37]
Tax direction unchanged [38]
Operators

Operator Data

Florida publishes no dollar sales, no wholesale price index, and no operator-margin data, so revenue, price compression, and margins cannot be quantified from public records. The vertically integrated license structure means there is no wholesale market and no public wholesale price series of any kind. What the public record reports is dispensing volume. Weekly THC dispensed rose from roughly 89 million milligrams at the end of 2019 to roughly 481 million at the end of 2025, and weekly smokable-flower volume rose from roughly 20,000 ounces to roughly 155,000 ounces over the same period; these are seven-day flow figures, not annual totals, and are subject to week-to-week variance. The market is served by 28 licensed MMTCs, of which 22 were actively dispensing in the most recent reporting week. The licensed count is also the peak count, and the state publishes no license-attrition tally.

Field Value Source
Wholesale flower ($/lb) Not available in the public record —
Wholesale flower period Not available in the public record —
Wholesale trend Not available in the public record —
Wholesale price compression Not available in the public record —
Retail flower ($/oz) Not available in the public record —
Operator margin Not available in the public record —
Total market sales Not available in the public record —
Adult-use sales Not available in the public record —
Per-capita sales Not available in the public record —
YoY sales growth Not available in the public record —
License attrition (count) Not available in the public record —
License attrition Not available in the public record —
Peak cultivation licenses 28 [39]
Current cultivation licenses 28 [40]
Outcomes

Consumer Data

Florida publishes no per-capita dollar sales and no retail price series, and it publishes no estimate of legal-market capture — the share of total consumption met by licensed dispensaries versus the unregulated market — so neither consumer spending nor displacement of the legacy market can be stated from public sources. The registry held 930,513 active qualified patients as of June 5, 2026, roughly 4.0 percent of residents, served by 767 dispensing locations, or 3.28 per 100,000 residents. Per-patient volume is available only in the aggregate dispensing series, not as a published per-patient figure.

Field Value Source
Per-capita sales Not available in the public record —
Dispensaries per 100k 3.28 [13]
Legal market capture Not available in the public record —
Legal capture source Not available in the public record —
Retail price trend Not available in the public record —
Equity

Equity Programs

Florida has no broad social-equity licensing program — no equity tier, no equity fund, no fee waivers or reduced-fee applications, and no community-reinvestment requirement. Its only equity-motivated provision is a single statutory set-aside: §381.986(8)(a) reserves one MMTC license for an applicant who was a recognized class member in the Pigford v. Glickman / In re Black Farmers Discrimination Litigation. The department issued that license in 2023, to Gwinn Brothers Medicinals; the state does not publish confirmation that it is operational, nor any MMTC ownership demographic data, so the minority-owned and women-owned shares of the licensee base cannot be stated. Expungement is petition-based and discretionary — an FDLE Certificate of Eligibility plus a court petition under §943.0585 — with no cannabis-specific or automatic record relief.

Field Value Source
Equity program exists Yes [41]
Equity program type Narrow statutory set-aside only: §381.986(8)(a) reserves a single MMTC license for an applicant who was a recognized class member in the Pigford v. Glickman / In re Black Farmers Discrimination Litigation. No broad social-equity licensing tier, no equity fund, no fee waivers or reduced-fee applications, and no community-reinvestment requirement. [42]
Equity licenses awarded 1 [43]
Equity licenses operational Not available in the public record —
Equity activation rate Not available in the public record —
Equity fund exists No [44]
Equity fund size Not available in the public record —
Equity fund disbursed Not available in the public record —
Equity fund disbursement rate Not available in the public record —
Minority ownership Not available in the public record —
Women ownership Not available in the public record —
Community reinvestment Not available in the public record —
Expungement exists Yes [45]
Expungement automatic No [46]
Income cap for equity Not available in the public record —
Enforcement

Enforcement

Florida tracks regulated product seed-to-sale through BioTrack. Beyond the tracking system, the state does not publish the operational metrics of enforcement: inspection counts, enforcement actions against licensees, illicit-market enforcement actions, regulatory budget and staffing, the count of mandatory testing analytes, per-batch testing cost, and product recalls are not available in the public record. The disciplinary rule sets a maximum fine of $10,000 per violation (Fla. Admin. Code R. 64-4.210); no minimum fine schedule is published. This section is therefore largely NOT_AVAILABLE — not because enforcement does not occur, but because the regulator does not report these figures in a form that can be sourced for a public reference.

Field Value Source
Track-and-trace system BioTrack [19]
Inspections per year Not available in the public record —
Enforcement actions (licensees) Not available in the public record —
Unlicensed-market enforcement actions Not available in the public record —
Regulatory budget Not available in the public record —
Regulatory staff Not available in the public record —
Mandatory testing analytes Not available in the public record —
Testing cost per batch Not available in the public record —
Product recalls per year Not available in the public record —
Fine schedule (min) Not available in the public record —
Fine schedule (max) $10,000 [47]
Criminal Law

Penalties & Criminal Law

Florida never legalized adult use, and criminal penalties for non-patient cannabis are unchanged from the medical-only era. Possession of 20 grams or less is a first-degree misdemeanor; possession of more than 20 grams is a third-degree felony carrying up to five years and a $5,000 fine (§893.13(6)). Cultivation of any amount is a third-degree felony; by plant count it escalates to trafficking under §893.135, where 25 pounds or 300 or more plants triggers a three-year mandatory minimum and a $25,000 fine, and the top tier — 10,000 pounds or more — carries a 15-year mandatory minimum and a sentence of up to 30 years. A registered patient who exceeds the registry limits without a physician-approved exception loses safe-harbor and is subject to these general penalties. Florida sets no per se THC blood limit for impaired driving, relying instead on an impairment standard. Numerous local governments — among them Miami-Dade, Tampa, Orlando, Broward, and Key West — have adopted civil-citation ordinances giving officers discretion to fine rather than arrest, though state law itself is unchanged. Records may be expunged only by petition; there is no automatic relief. The most recent annual cannabis-arrest count is 5,970 for calendar-year 2024, up from 2,540 in 2022; these are secondary federal figures drawn from a period spanning Florida's transition to NIBRS reporting, which the compiling source notes is incomplete and undercounts.

Field Value Source
Max penalty, unlicensed cultivation Cultivation/manufacture of cannabis (any amount) is a third-degree felony, up to 5 years and $5,000 (§893.13(1)(a)2). By plant count it escalates to trafficking under §893.135: 25+ plants is a presumptive intent-to-sell marker and 300+ plants is first-degree-felony trafficking carrying a 3-year mandatory minimum. [48]
Max penalty, unlicensed sale Trafficking under §893.135: 25 lbs (or 300+ plants) triggers a 3-year mandatory minimum + $25,000; 2,000-9,999 lbs a 7-year mandatory minimum + $50,000; 10,000+ lbs a 15-year mandatory minimum + $200,000 (up to 30 years). Ordinary sale of cannabis is a third-degree felony; sale of 20 g or less without remuneration is a first-degree misdemeanor. [49]
Felony threshold (grams) 20 [50]
Felony threshold type possession [51]
Penalty, possession over limit Possession of more than 20 g of cannabis is a third-degree felony, up to 5 years and $5,000 (§893.13(6)(a)). 20 g or less is a first-degree misdemeanor. A registered patient who exceeds the registry supply/possession limits without a physician-approved exception loses safe-harbor and is subject to these general penalties. [52]
Penalty, public consumption Not available in the public record —
DUI per se limit (ng) Not available in the public record —
DUI zero tolerance No [53]
Penalties increased post-legalization No [54]
Penalty direction unchanged [55]
Penalty direction details Florida legalized medical only (2014 SB 1030 low-THC; 2016 Amendment 2 full medical; 2019 SB 182 smokable flower). Adult use was never legalized (Amendment 3 failed Nov 2024). Criminal penalties for non-patient possession are unchanged: 20 g or less remains a first-degree misdemeanor, more than 20 g a third-degree felony. Numerous local governments (Miami-Dade, Tampa, Orlando, Broward, Key West and others) adopted civil-citation ordinances giving officers discretion to fine rather than arrest, but state law itself is unchanged. [56]
Post-legalization arrests (annual) 5970 [57]
Racial disparity ratio Not available in the public record —
Expungement exists Yes [45]
Expungement automatic No [46]

Sources

  1. ↑ FL Department of Health, Office of Medical Marijuana Use (OMMU) https://knowthefactsmmj.com/
  2. ↑ U.S. Census Bureau / USPS standard abbreviation for Florida.
  3. ↑ Most recent data point = FL OMMU Weekly Update dated June 5, 2026 (patient, MMTC, dispensing-location and weekly-dispensing figures) https://knowthefactsmmj.com/wp-content/uploads/ommu_updates/2026/060526-OMMU-Update.pdf
  4. ↑ [SECONDARY] 2016 Florida Amendment 2 (full medical) passed Nov 8, 2016 (71.3%) and took effect January 3, 2017; cites the Florida Secretary of State canvass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Florida_Amendment_2
  5. ↑ [SECONDARY] Health News Florida / WUSF — Trulieve opened Florida's first dispensary (Tallahassee) and made the state's first in-store low-THC sale on July 26, 2016 (under the 2014 SB 1030 low-THC program, predating Amendment 2) https://health.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2016-07-27/first-medical-marijuana-dispensary-opens-in-florida
  6. ↑ Florida Office of Economic & Demographic Research (EDR) Demographic Estimating Conference — official April 1, 2025 resident population estimate = 23,379,261 https://edr.state.fl.us/content/conferences/population/demographicsummary.pdf
  7. ↑ FL OMMU Weekly Update 6/5/2026 — MMTC dispensation table lists 28 licensed MMTCs (25 corporate-named entities + 3 individual licensees). Florida is vertically integrated: one MMTC license authorizes cultivation, processing and dispensing (§381.986(8)(e)), so the cultivation-license count equals the MMTC count https://knowthefactsmmj.com/wp-content/uploads/ommu_updates/2026/060526-OMMU-Update.pdf
  8. ↑ FL OMMU Weekly Update 6/5/2026 — 22 MMTCs had at least one open dispensing location and product dispensed in the reporting week https://knowthefactsmmj.com/wp-content/uploads/ommu_updates/2026/060526-OMMU-Update.pdf
  9. ↑ CALC: 22 operational / 28 licensed × 100 = 78.6%.
  10. ↑ CALC: 22 operational MMTCs / (23,379,261 / 1,000,000) = 0.9 per million.
  11. ↑ FL OMMU Weekly Update 6/5/2026 — Florida has no separate retail license; the same vertically-integrated MMTC license covers dispensing, so retail-licenses-awarded equals the MMTC count of 28 https://knowthefactsmmj.com/wp-content/uploads/ommu_updates/2026/060526-OMMU-Update.pdf
  12. ↑ FL OMMU Weekly Update 6/5/2026 — 22 MMTCs actively dispensing https://knowthefactsmmj.com/wp-content/uploads/ommu_updates/2026/060526-OMMU-Update.pdf
  13. ↑ CALC: 767 total dispensing locations (FL OMMU Weekly Update 6/5/2026) / (23,379,261 / 100,000) = 3.28 https://knowthefactsmmj.com/wp-content/uploads/ommu_updates/2026/060526-OMMU-Update.pdf
  14. ↑ §381.986(8)(e), Fla. Stat. — an MMTC must cultivate, process and dispense its own marijuana and may not contract those functions out; vertical integration is mandatory https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/381.986
  15. ↑ §381.986(8)(a), Fla. Stat. — MMTC licensure is capped and tied to the patient registry: the department licenses four additional MMTCs within 6 months of each additional 100,000 active qualified patients https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/381.986
  16. ↑ §381.986(8)(e), Fla. Stat. — an MMTC may transfer/sell its license to an entity meeting statutory requirements, subject to department approval https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/381.986
  17. ↑ §381.986(8)(b), Fla. Stat. — applicants must have been registered to do business in Florida for the 5 years before applying; there is no personal-residency requirement for owners https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/381.986
  18. ↑ [SECONDARY] Florida has 411 incorporated municipalities (plus 67 counties, which may separately ban dispensing facilities under §381.986(11)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Florida
  19. ↑ [SECONDARY] Fla. Admin. Code R. 64ER24-1 requires MMTCs to integrate with the department's statewide seed-to-sale tracking system; the vendor is BioTrack (live FL OMMU portal admin.fl.biotr.ac, launched Nov 2024) https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/florida/Fla-Admin-Code-Ann-R-64ER24-1
  20. ↑ Fla. Admin. Code R. 64-4.002 — single MMTC application fee (covers the vertically-integrated cultivation/processing/dispensing license) https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?id=64-4.002
  21. ↑ Fla. Admin. Code R. 64-4.002 — Florida has one combined MMTC application fee; there is no separate retail application fee https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?id=64-4.002
  22. ↑ §381.986, Fla. Stat. — patients may obtain marijuana only from a licensed MMTC; no patient home cultivation is authorized https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/381.986
  23. ↑ FL OMMU Dosing and Supply Limits rule (64ER22-8) / §381.986 — smokable flower is capped at 2.5 ounces per 35-day supply period https://knowthefactsmmj.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/64ER22-8-Dosing-and-Supply-Limits-for-Medical-Marijuana.pdf
  24. ↑ §381.986, Fla. Stat. — MMTCs are statutorily authorized to deliver marijuana to qualified patients and caregivers https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/381.986
  25. ↑ [SECONDARY] FL MMTCs operate statewide home delivery; OMMU does not publish a standalone delivery count, but delivery is in active commercial operation https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0300-0399/0381/Sections/0381.986.html
  26. ↑ §381.986, Fla. Stat. — the statute authorizes only dispensing/possession; there is no provision for on-site or social consumption, and medical use in public is restricted https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/381.986
  27. ↑ FL OMMU Dosing and Supply Limits rule (64ER22-8) — 35-day smokable limit = 2.5 ounces (daily smokable dose 2.025 g) https://knowthefactsmmj.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/64ER22-8-Dosing-and-Supply-Limits-for-Medical-Marijuana.pdf
  28. ↑ FL OMMU Dosing and Supply Limits rule (64ER22-8) — edibles capped at 60 mg THC per day (4,200 mg per 70-day supply) https://knowthefactsmmj.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/64ER22-8-Dosing-and-Supply-Limits-for-Medical-Marijuana.pdf
  29. ↑ FL OMMU Dosing and Supply Limits rule (64ER22-8) / §381.986 — Florida permits flower/smokable (since 2019 SB 182), vape, edibles, capsules, tinctures, sublingual, suppository and topical forms for medical patients https://knowthefactsmmj.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/64ER22-8-Dosing-and-Supply-Limits-for-Medical-Marijuana.pdf
  30. ↑ FL OMMU Dosing and Supply Limits rule (64ER22-8) — each non-smokable route carries daily and 70-day THC milligram caps; edibles are subject to shape/potency restrictions https://knowthefactsmmj.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/64ER22-8-Dosing-and-Supply-Limits-for-Medical-Marijuana.pdf
  31. ↑ §212.08(2)(l), Fla. Stat. — marijuana and marijuana delivery devices as defined in §381.986 are exempt from Chapter 212 tax; Florida levies no cannabis excise tax https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/212.08
  32. ↑ §212.08(2)(l), Fla. Stat. — no excise tax of any type applies to medical marijuana https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/212.08
  33. ↑ §212.08(2)(l), Fla. Stat. — medical marijuana is exempt from Florida sales/use tax (0%) https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/212.08
  34. ↑ §212.08(2)(l), Fla. Stat. — medical marijuana is tax-exempt; no potency-based tax exists https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/212.08
  35. ↑ §212.08(2)(l), Fla. Stat. — medical marijuana is fully tax-exempt, so the total effective consumer tax rate is 0% https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/212.08
  36. ↑ §212.08(2)(l), Fla. Stat. — medical marijuana and delivery devices are exempt from Chapter 212 tax https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/212.08
  37. ↑ §212.08(2)(l), Fla. Stat. — the medical-marijuana tax exemption has been in place since enactment (SB 8A, 2017) and is unchanged https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/212.08
  38. ↑ §212.08(2)(l), Fla. Stat. — the cannabis tax treatment (full exemption) has not changed https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/212.08
  39. ↑ FL OMMU Weekly Update 6/5/2026 — 28 licensed MMTCs is the current and highest count; vertically-integrated MMTC count equals the cultivation-license count https://knowthefactsmmj.com/wp-content/uploads/ommu_updates/2026/060526-OMMU-Update.pdf
  40. ↑ FL OMMU Weekly Update 6/5/2026 — 28 currently licensed MMTCs (25 corporate-named + 3 individual licensees) https://knowthefactsmmj.com/wp-content/uploads/ommu_updates/2026/060526-OMMU-Update.pdf
  41. ↑ §381.986(8)(a), Fla. Stat. + FL OMMU Pigford/BFL MMTC application page — a single MMTC license is reserved for a Pigford/Black Farmer class member; this is the only equity-motivated provision (no broad social-equity program) https://knowthefactsmmj.com/mmtc/2022-pigford-bfl-mmtc-application-process/
  42. ↑ §381.986(8)(a), Fla. Stat. + FL OMMU Pigford/BFL MMTC application page — narrow statutory set-aside of one MMTC license for a recognized Pigford v. Glickman / In re Black Farmers class member; no fund, fee relief, or reinvestment provisions https://knowthefactsmmj.com/mmtc/2022-pigford-bfl-mmtc-application-process/
  43. ↑ FL OMMU Pigford/BFL MMTC application process — one Pigford/Black Farmer MMTC license; the department issued it in 2023 (Gwinn Brothers Medicinals) https://knowthefactsmmj.com/mmtc/2022-pigford-bfl-mmtc-application-process/
  44. ↑ §381.986, Fla. Stat. — Florida's medical-marijuana statute creates no cannabis social-equity fund https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/381.986
  45. ↑ §943.0585, Fla. Stat. — Florida offers only general petition-based expungement (FDLE Certificate of Eligibility + court petition); there is no cannabis-specific mechanism https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/943.0585
  46. ↑ §943.0585, Fla. Stat. — expungement is petition-based and discretionary; there is no automatic cannabis record relief https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/943.0585
  47. ↑ Fla. Admin. Code R. 64-4.210 (MMTC Fines, Suspension, and Revocation) — fines of up to $10,000 per violation https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/florida/Fla-Admin-Code-Ann-R-64-4-210
  48. ↑ §893.13(1)(a)2 and §893.135, Fla. Stat. — cultivation is a third-degree felony; trafficking-by-plant-count (300+ plants) is a first-degree felony https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/893.13
  49. ↑ §893.135, Fla. Stat. — cannabis trafficking thresholds and mandatory minimums (25 lbs / 2,000 lbs / 10,000 lbs); §893.13 for ordinary sale https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/893.135
  50. ↑ §893.13(6)(b), Fla. Stat. — possession of 20 grams or less is a first-degree misdemeanor; more than 20 grams is a third-degree felony (threshold inclusive at 20.0 g) https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/893.13
  51. ↑ §893.13(6), Fla. Stat. — the 20-gram felony threshold is keyed to possession https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/893.13
  52. ↑ §893.13(6)(a), Fla. Stat. — possession of more than 20 g is a third-degree felony (up to 5 years, $5,000) https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/893.13
  53. ↑ §316.193, Fla. Stat. — Florida uses an impairment standard ('normal faculties impaired') with no per se THC limit and no zero-tolerance provision https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/316.193
  54. ↑ §893.13, Fla. Stat. — Florida never legalized adult use; non-patient cannabis penalties are unchanged https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/893.13
  55. ↑ §893.13, Fla. Stat. — criminal penalties for non-patient possession are unchanged (20 g or less misdemeanor; more than 20 g felony) https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/893.13
  56. ↑ §893.13, Fla. Stat. + local civil-citation ordinances — state penalties unchanged since the medical-only era; multiple localities adopted discretionary civil-citation ordinances https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/893.13
  57. ↑ [SECONDARY] NORML 'Florida Marijuana Arrests' compiling FBI/NIBRS data — CY2024 total = 5,970 (5,479 possession + 491 sale); FL's post-NIBRS-transition reporting is incomplete and undercounts https://norml.org/marijuana/library/state-marijuana-arrests/florida-marijuana-arrests/
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