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It has been a long journey since spring of 2014, when Gov. Rick Scott signed off on the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act. The legislation divided the state into five regions with one license each to cultivate low-THC marijuana and process its oil into medicine to treat children afflicted with a severe form of epilepsy and cancer patients.
The medication, commonly known as Charlotte’s Web, was supposed to be available Jan. 1, 2015, but legal wrangling delayed the process of whittling 28 applicants to five licensees. Ultimately, nurseries had until July 8 to apply for one of the five licenses. Four agricultural businesses, including Alpha Foliage, Homestead, Harts’ Plants Nursery, Jacksonville, and Tree-King Tree Farm, New Port Richey, had competed for the...
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