Medical Marijuana

A $1.33 million license-renewal fee "carries out to the letter" a legislative mandate for how much it should cost medical-marijuana companies to do business in Florida, an administrative law judge decided on Wednesday.

An administrative law judge is poised to decide whether a $1.33 million license-renewal fee is too pricey for medical-marijuana operators doing business in Florida.

An administrative law judge issued an order allowing a challenge by Sanctuary Cannabis to proceed and granted an emergency motion to force health officials to provide info used to calculate the new fee.

Some Florida Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Wednesday of arguments that the court should reject a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow recreational use of marijuana by people 21 or older.

The state adopted a rule creating a formula that set the renewal fee at $1.33 million every two years — more than 22 times the $60,000 biennial operators had been paying.

The proposed ballot summary, in part, says the measure would allow “adults 21 years or older to possess, purchase, or use marijuana products and marijuana accessories” for non-medical consumption.

They are trying to persuade an appeals court that state health officials were wrong to scrap his application because he died before the licensing process was complete.

A Florida lawsuit challenging a federal prohibition on medical marijuana patients buying and possessing guns might have received support this week.

Two Black farmers have received licenses to grow, process and sell medical marijuana, thanks to a new state law.

Florida’s long battle over who can have medical marijuana licenses seems to have come to a close.

Physicians will still have to conduct in-person exams before approving patients for medical marijuana. But it will allow physicians to use telehealth for renewal approvals.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is slated to review a bill that would give Black farmers an entry into Florida’s flourishing medical marijuana industry.