Tag Archives: medical marijuana

As pot shops start to sprout in Florida, cities are struggling with how --- or whether --- to regulate the state's new marijuana industry.

Lawyers for Jacksonville-based Loop's Nursery tried to convince judge that it should have one of five highly sought-after licenses.

Lawyers for the Florida Department of Health have given a Jacksonville nursery until Monday to take action on an attempt to keep secret a list of investors affiliated with a bid to become one of a handful of medical marijuana operations in the state. The move came after wrangling between …

Lawyers for Jacksonville-based Loop's Nursery and the state of Florida spent much of Wednesday wrangling over issues with the state's nascent medical marijuana industry and which nurseries are allowed to take part.

The law requires that any nursery that was the top scorer in a region must receive a license

Following nearly an hour of discussion, a 4-to-1 vote determined that Alachua County would not adopt a moratorium regarding medical marijuana dispensaries. A notice of zoning in progress and the motion to advertise a public hearing for a moratorium was presented Tuesday during an Alachua County Board of County Commissioners meeting. The …

Opponents of a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana gave a glimpse of their strategy Monday by releasing a video alleging the measure would lead to a plethora of "pot shops" similar to the marijuana industry in California. The video, posted online by the"Vote No on 2 Campaign" also compared the proposal to a medical-marijuana initiative that Florida voters narrowly rejected in 2014.

The existing statute protects five medical marijuana nurseries.

Medical marijuana licenses given to two Northeast Florida nurseries by state health officials cannot be challenged by a grower who lost out in the application process, an administrative law judge ruled Monday. But Judge R. Bruce McKibben left open the possibility for Loop's Nursery and Greenhouses to get a third license in the region.