Ayr Wellness has opened the first medical cannabis dispensary in Miami nearly 10 years after Florida voters legalized MMJ sales.
“It’s pretty exciting. This has been a five-plus-year process since we started planning this particular dispensary,” Rob Vanisko, Ayr’s vice president of public engagement, told Miami New Times.
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“From lease signing to all the approvals to the appeals to actually be able to get this open has been quite the process.”
Ayr Wellness is a marijuana multistate operator that’s headquartered in Miami.
After voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2016 to legalize medical marijuana, Miami’s city attorney said the state’s second-largest municipality couldn’t issue permits for dispensaries because the federal Controlled Substances Act overrides Florida law.
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