Florida medical marijuana program draws 24 applicants
Twenty-four Florida commercial plant nurseries have applied for state licenses to grow non-euphoric marijuana and process and sell a medicinal oil that can be used to treat epilepsy and several other medical conditions in Florida.
The applicants are spread across five regions and their proposals will be competing to win a single license that the state Department of Health will award each region. There are eight applicants who applied for the license for Central Florida. All five regions drew at least four applicants.
The application pool, announced late Wednesday, demonstrates, at last, that there is clear business interest in Florida's newly-legalized, yet highly-regulated and limited medical marijuana program. The winning companies will be committed to growing a plant they've never grown and processing a medicine they've never made, to sell to a market no one has clearly defined.
They intend to develop a medicinal oil high in content of cannabidiol,...
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