Medical marijuana’s long delay in Florida gives bud to new ideas

Frustrated by delays in Florida introducing a form of medical marijuana, a state senator Monday proposed a more expansive plan for making pot available to sick Floridians.

Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, is proposing a measure that would add more illnesses to the list of those qualified for marijuana treatment, allow more growers and retailers to sell the product, and scrap the state’s limitation that prescription pot in Florida be only the…