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Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is asking an appellate court to revisit a decision that Florida officials argue injected "confusion and uncertainty" into the state's medical marijuana industry.

DeSantis and health officials last week asked the First District Court of Appeal for a hearing by the full court, known as an "en banc" hearing, after a July 9 ruling that Florida's "vertical integration" system requiring licensed operators to grow, process and distribute cannabis and byproducts runs afoul of a constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana.

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