Florida Officials’ Medical Marijuana Business Licensing Decisions Are Being Appealed By Rejected Applicants
“We labored with seven teams to enchantment in opposition to their denial.”
By Christine Sexton, Florida Phoenix
Candidates who haven’t been opted for brand new medical marijuana licenses ship an enchantment within the Florida Division of Well being (Doh).
Doh didn’t reply to Florida Phoenix’s request for an inventory of candidates who despatched notes that introduced their intention to enchantment in opposition to the choice, informally on the stage of the company or formally by means of the state division of administrative hearings.
However Paula Savchenko, adviser and advisor of the hashish business, instructed the Florida Phoenix that she has totally different clients who’ve knowledgeable the state of requests for hearings. Savchenko has not revealed which of her clients requested hearings or whether or not they could be formal or casual.
“We labored with seven teams to enchantment in opposition to their denial,” she mentioned in a cellphone name on Tuesday afternoon.
Candidates had till Tuesday to tell the state of their intention to enchantment.
Seventy-four candidates submitted functions for medical marijuana licenses, and on the finish of November the state introduced its intention to grant 22 licenses, which implies that 52 candidates had been refused.
Saverchko estimated that 75 p.c of the rejected candidates, or 39, might problem the denominations of the State.
The medical marijuana business of Florida is tightly regulated and solely individuals with a license can domesticate, course of and promote marijuana.
Florida workplace of medical marijuana knowledge exhibits that on December 6, 890,402 sufferers had certified to make use of medical marijuana and a couple of,444 docs certified to order medical marijuana for these sufferers.
Saverchko estimates that the State could be justified on the idea of the variety of registered sufferers within the project of two or three licenses on high of the 22 it was granted.
This story was first published by Florida Phoenix.
Photograph because of Mike Latimer.
