Supply Limits and When You Can Buy Again

Last updated 2026-08-04

Two cycles, running in parallel

Florida doesn't give you one allowance. It gives you two, they cover different things, and they run and reset independently of each other.

Smokable marijuana runs on a rolling 35-day window, capped at 2.5 ounces. Each window is measured by looking back from the day of the purchase, so nothing resets on a fixed date.

Non-smokable products run on a rolling 70-day window, with an aggregate ceiling of 24,500 mg of THC. The ceiling is not an allowance. Your limit is the daily dose your physician recorded for each route, times 70.

Both come from Fla. Admin. Code R. 64-4.224. Because the periods differ, they drift out of step almost immediately, and the mistake people make is assuming that having plenty left on one means they have room on the other. Being full on flower tells you nothing about your edibles allowance, and the reverse.

What gets refused

The dispensary is not making a judgment about you. Your remaining allowance lives in the state Registry, the dispensary reads it at the counter, and the system will simply not permit an order that exceeds what is there.

Which means the answer to "when can I buy again" is not something we can tell you from a page. It is a specific date sitting in your record, and the two reliable ways to find it are asking the dispensary to look, or checking your own Registry account.

A useful habit if you're planning a larger buy: ask what is left on both cycles before you choose what to buy, not after. Budtenders are asked this constantly and it takes them a moment.

Buying and holding are different limits

This is the second confusion and it catches people who have already understood the first.

Supply is how much you may buy in a period. Possession is how much you may have at one time, and it is set by statute instead of by rule: Fla. Stat. 381.986(14)(a) bars possessing more than a 70-day supply, or in smokable form "the greater of 4 ounces" or an amount the department approves.

Note the greater of: four ounces is a floor the department may raise for an individual patient. It is not a ceiling on everyone. And the gap between a 2.5-ounce buy cap and a 4-ounce possession cap is precisely what makes carrying over from a previous cycle possible in the first place.

The third clock, which is the doctor's

Even a full allowance is unusable if your certification has lapsed. the Registry needs current orders on file before a dispensary can dispense against them.

Fla. Stat. 381.986(4)(f) caps a single certification at three 70-day supply limits, or six 35-day limits of smokable marijuana, both at most 210 days, and yours may be shorter. That is why our yearly cost guide exists: the certification clock is shorter than the card's, so the two never line up.

Since July 2026 this bites harder, because the Registry will not accept a card application at all without a current or scheduled certification. The rule-change guide covers it.