One of Florida’s largest cultivators and distributors of medical marijuana is pushing the Department of Health to set rules allowing thousands of cannabis patients to eat their medicine.
Surterra Wellness announced Monday that its Florida affiliate has filed a petition to open up the edible products market. Edibles include cannabis-infused foods such as chocolates and cookies.
A bill passed last summer requires the DOH to create rules determining the shape, form and ingredients that will be legal before cultivators can produce and distribute edibles.
“This means that no Florida patient will have access to legal marijuana edibles until the Department of Health makes these rules, and they have yet to initiate that on their own,” Surterra said in a Monday press release. “This petition is intended to jump start that process.”
Surterra Florida and Alpha Foliage, which filed the petition Friday, recommended that the state allow chocolates, lozenges, confections, pills, capsules, and baked goods like brownies, cookies and cupcakes.