Smoking medical marijuana is legalized in Florida two years after residents ...

Smoking medical marijuana has been legalized in Florida.

On Monday, Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill that repealed the state's ban on smokable medical cannabis. 

Under the new law, card-carrying patients can receive 2.5 ounces of pot every 35 days. 

In addition, patients under 18 are allowed to smoke if they're terminally ill and if at least two doctors - one being a pediatrician - recommend it.  

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law on Monday that legalized smoking medical marijuana (file image)

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law on Monday that legalized smoking medical marijuana (file image)

DeSantis noted that more than 70 percent of voters approved medical marijuana in a 2016 constitutional amendment. 

However, in 2017, then-Governor Rick Scott signed a law that banned smoking pot in all forms.

Upon taking office in January, DeSantis gave lawmakers a deadline of March 15 to act on repealing the ban.

Otherwise, he vowed to pull the Sunshine State out of a lawsuit that would lift Scott's ban, reported WBBH.  

The bill was passed in the Florida Senate by a vote of 34-4 on March 7 and in the House by a 101-11 vote on March 13.

'I thank my colleagues in the Legislature for working with me to ensure the will of our voters is upheld,' DeSantis said in a statement on Monday. 

'Now that we have honored our duty to find a legislative solution, I have honored my commitment and filed a joint motion to dismiss the state's appeal and to vacate the lower court decision which had held the prior law to be unconstitutional.'

John Morgan, an Orlando attorney who spearheaded the lawsuit, praised DeSantis and the

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