A Florida appeals court judge criticized state health officials for not awarding more medical cannabis licenses as required by law.
After the 1st District Court of Appeals ruled in an MMJ licensing dispute, Judge Ross Bilbrey wrote that, “almost five years after the emergency rule was issued, the (state) license application window remains closed,” the News Service of Florida reported.
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Bilbrey shared his opinion after he and two other justices upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit by Louis Del Favero Orchids seeking a license for a medical marijuana treatment center, as dispensaries are called in Florida.
Bilbrey also noted the defendant “is understandably frustrated with the ongoing failure of the Department of Health to open the application window and issue Medical Marijuana Treatment Center licenses as required by the Florida Constitution.”
The state amended its Constitution in 2016 to legalize medical marijuana. A year later, a law
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