Florida Nursery Sues Over Denied Marijuana License
Administrative law judge Elizabeth W. McArthur found the use of a rented jet helicopter and a mad dash to the Department of Health's headquarters are not necessarily rules violations.
The ruling came Monday in a challenge to the Department of Health awarding a marijuana license to Knox Nursery of Winter Garden.
“Maybe it was important to them,” she said, upholding a Department of Health motion to exclude incidents involving Knox’s delivery of a $5 million bond receipt.
McCrory’s Nursery wants the state to pull Knox’s license for failing to post a bond on time in December. A spokesman said it can produce documents showing despite renting a jet helicopter to fly to Tallahassee, the deadline was missed. McCrory came in second to Knox when DOH scored the applications.
McCrory wanted to argue Knox lacked the financial resources it claimed.
The McCrory-Knox case is one of a handful questioning how DOH...
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