The Florida 70-Day Supply Rule for Medical Cannabis Patients

Last verified: May 2026

The Limits Table

Smokable Flower — The 35-Day Window

Florida limits smokable flower to 2.5 ounces per 35-day rolling period, with a possession cap of 4 ounces at any time. The daily limit is 2.025 grams. The combination of the rolling 35-day window and the 4-oz possession cap is what every Miami-Dade MMTC checks at point of sale — the MMUR system displays the patient’s current allocation status before the budtender can ring up the transaction.

Smokable flower was banned from the Florida program for two years after Amendment 2 passed; the 2017 implementing law (SB 8A) banned smoking. Trial lawyer John Morgan sued, won at the circuit-court level, and Governor Ron DeSantis dropped the appeal in early 2019. The Legislature passed SB 182 (sponsored by Sen. Jeff Brandes), signed by Gov. DeSantis on March 18, 2019, lifting the smokable ban. Flower has been the dominant product category since.

Non-Smokable Aggregate — The 70-Day Window

Non-smokable products — edibles, vapes, capsules, tinctures, suppositories, topicals — share a single aggregate cap: 24,500 mg of THC per 70-day rolling period. Within that aggregate, each route of administration has its own daily sub-limit:

• Edibles: 60 mg THC/day
• Vaporized products: 350 mg THC/day
• Oral capsules: 200 mg THC/day
• Sublingual tinctures: 190 mg THC/day
• Suppositories: 195 mg THC/day
• Topical creams: 150 mg THC/day

Edibles came online in Florida in August 2020 after multiple OMMU rule-making delays. The 60 mg/day edible cap is among the lowest in any state — Massachusetts, Colorado, California, and New York all permit substantially higher daily edible THC.

Rolling Windows — The Carry-Forward Trap

⚠️ The 35-day and 70-day windows are rolling, not calendar. Every dispensation looks back 35 days (flower) or 70 days (non-smokable) from the moment of sale. Unused allocations do not roll forward. If you bought 1 oz of flower 30 days ago and 0.5 oz of flower 5 days ago, your remaining 35-day allocation is calculated against everything in the trailing 35 days — not against a calendar reset.

This matters operationally for hurricane preparation. A patient who tries to “stock up” ahead of a named storm by buying their full 35-day flower allocation in a single transaction will be locked out of further flower purchases for the next 35 days. See hurricane patient continuity.

Physician Exception Forms

A certifying physician may submit an exception form to OMMU for patients who require more than the standard limits — for example, severe-pain patients, ALS patients, or terminal-condition patients with high THC tolerance. Exceptions have historically been granted sparingly. Patients should not assume an exception is forthcoming; the standard limits effectively constrain almost all Florida patients.

How MMTCs Verify Allocation

Every Miami-Dade MMTC point-of-sale system queries the OMMU MMUR database in real time. The MMUR returns the patient’s remaining allocation in each category. The budtender cannot complete the transaction if the patient’s current cart would exceed any limit. This is one of the few aspects of the Florida program where the technical infrastructure is genuinely robust — the same MMUR query happens at Trulieve in Aventura, Curaleaf in South Miami Dade, and MÜV in Kendall.

What Counts Toward the Limits

Only Florida-MMTC-purchased product is tracked in MMUR. The 70-day rule does not apply to:

• Hemp-derived products legal under state and federal law (≤0.3% Δ9-THC) — though see the concentrate-felony page for the November 2026 hemp reclassification
• Cannabis brought from out of state — which is a federal felony to transport regardless
• Home-cultivated cannabis — not authorized in Florida (Amendment 3’s 2024 defeat preserved this)

Practical Allocation Strategies

Experienced Miami-Dade patients use one or more of these approaches:

• Spread purchases across multiple visits rather than buying the maximum in one transaction.
• Use multiple MMTCs in the patient’s area — pricing, promos, and product availability vary by operator.
• Combine flower and vape purchases — flower and vaporized non-smokable are tracked separately. This is the most common dual-product pattern.
• Maintain a personal log — the OMMU MMUR portal shows allocation status, but having your own running tally prevents end-of-window surprises.

Companion Site — Statewide Rule History

For the statewide history of Florida supply-rule rule-making — pre-2022 limits, the August 2022 emergency rule, and recurring legislative-and-regulatory pressure to either tighten or loosen the limits — see CannabisFL.org.

Related on this site: Miami Medical Marijuana Card, Florida Has No Out-of-State Medical C..., Miami Qualifying Conditions.