Florida Medical Marijuana News
The family and business partners of a Black farmer who died after applying for a medical marijuana license hope to convince a Florida appeals court that state regulators wrongly rejected the application because the man’s death came before the permitting process was finished.
As marijuana consumers develop a better understanding and appreciation for terpenes, flavonoids and other chemical compounds found in cannabis flower, live resin products are becoming increasingly popular.
Medical marijuana regulators in Florida must establish a rulemaking process before blocking operators from utilizing third-party dispensing services, an appeals court ruled.
Multistate operators are busy expanding their retail footprints in Florida’s nearly $2 billion medical marijuana market, in some cases betting that adult-use legalization is on the horizon and jostling into position to capitalize on that possibility.
Nic Robertson, vice president of operations in Massachusetts for 4Front Ventures, said commercial growers have moved away from eyeballing the color of trichomes and squeezing buds to gauge moisture content in favor of scientific methods to evaluate when cannabis flower has reached an optimal point for harvest.
Florida-based marijuana multistate operator Trulieve Cannabis is evaluating its options after discovering the company’s former chief financial officer allegedly sought reimbursements for personal expenses and used the MSO’s corporate credit cards inappropriately, racking up as much as $400,000 in personal expenses.
A Trulieve Cannabis Corp.-sponsored marijuana legalization campaign in Florida is actually an effort to mislead voters into helping tighten the company’s “monopolistic stranglehold” on the state’s cannabis market, the state attorney general alleged in court filings this week.
