Three nurseries, including one in Alachua County, have asked a Leon County circuit judge for a preliminary injunction to block the Florida Department of Health from moving forward with efforts to grow and process limited types of medical marijuana in parts of the state.
The nurseries, Gainesville’s San Felasco Nurseries Inc., 3 Boys Farm Company in Homestead and McCrory's Sunny Hill Nursery in Eustis, filed a lawsuit Feb. 2 and followed last week with a motion for a preliminary injunction.
The nurseries unsuccessfully sought last year to be chosen in three regions as "dispensing organizations" that would grow, process and dispense types of non-euphoric cannabis under a 2014 law. The Department of Health chose one nursery in each of five regions of the state for the highly sought-after licenses.
The lawsuit seeks to block the process of starting to cultivate and process the low-THC types of cannabis at nurseries in the Northeast, Central and Southwest regions while administrative challenges to the nursery-selection process remain pending.
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