SOUTHWEST Fla. - Tens of thousands of patients who need medical marijuana are waiting on the governor's John Hancock. A bill that would allow those patients to smoke their medicine is waiting on his desk. 
Governor Ron DeSantis asked for a bill like it by a deadline of mid-March.
Legislators passed the bill in the House this week and presented it to him for his signature. If made into law, the bill would reverse the ban on medical marijuana being smoked. Patients would be able to buy rolled marijuana cigarettes. 
There are about 200,000 card-carrying medical marijuana patients in the state.
One such patient is Charles Crow, who has battled cancer and received a bone-marrow transplant. 
"In September, they were sending me home with hospice to die," Crow said. "Here I am. Yeah, [it's a] very amazing plant," he said.
Crow said it's time for people to be able to smoke it. 
"I think the whole plant, we should be able to utilize all of it. Like I said, we're all different. What works for me may not help you," Crow said. 
Nationwide, and within the state, legal marijuana use has taken off. Whether it's used for medicine, or recreationally (although in Florida this is still illegal), the marijuana train continues to roll. That's why medical marijuana attorney, Michael Hornung, said he believes recreational use could be in our future. 
"It is just going to progress, step-by-step, and I foresee within the next year to year and a half, recreational marijuana is going to be extremely close to the law here in the state of Florida," Hornung said.
Hornung said he thinks the governor's approval of the bill could come as early as Friday. 