Medicinal Marijuana nurseries post performance bond

Nurseries are required to begin dispensing medicinal marijuana by August. A handful of proposed bills would increase the number of patients legally eligible to use the drug.

Medicinal marijuana should be available in Florida by the middle of August.(Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Story Highlights

  • Hackney intends to grow marijuana in Quincy and sell it on Park Avenue in Tallahassee
  • Hackney, Simpson and May nurseries teamed up to pursue the license for the Northwest Regions
  • Products will include infused butters, cannabis oil, olive and coconut oils infused with cannabis extract
  • Bills repealing the low-THC requirement for legal medicinal marijuana have been filed for 2016

The nursery selected to grow legal marijuana in Northwest Florida has posted the $5 million performance bond required to proceed with cultivating low-THC marijuana and processing oil to produce medicinal products for epileptic and cancer patients.

Hackney Nursery of Quincy met the Wednesday deadline mandated by...

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