Trulieve, one of the original licensed providers of medical marijuana in Florida, is challenging the constitutionality of a 2017 state law that places "arbitrary" caps on how many retail outlets each company can have across the state.
The statute, which limits medical marijuana treatment centers to 25 dispensaries each statewide, are unfair to licensees that submitted business plans before the law changed, the lawsuit argues. The cap on dispensaries expires April 1, 2020, and has the sole purpose of suppressing competition among the treatment centers, the lawsuit contends.
Furthermore, the caps were added long after the state awarded licenses to applicants that had already submitted business plans that included the number of dispensaries they planned to open around the state.
