Florida’s Hit Another Snag as Nurseries Challenge Their Rejection

At this rate, I think it will have taken Florida longer than any other state to implement one, single, medical marijuana law. Since being signed into law in 2014 we’ve continuously hit one hold up after another – and just when it feels like we’re finally picking up momentum and getting somewhere, things come to a screeching halt.

After the five allotted nurseries were selected at the end of November it seemed that we may finally see patients getting relief early in 2016. Hopes for that might have been too high, however, because a total of 11 different companies have challenged the Department of Health’s ruling on the matter.

These challenges range from a dispute over what financial information was required in the application (filed by Tropiflorida) to being “erroneously disqualified based on a background screening of the company’s research and development director (Felasco Nurseries).

Each of these challenges will...

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