Florida Dispensary System Continues to Cause Confusion

Florida Dispensary System Continues to Cause Confusion

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Florida Dispensary System Continues to Cause Confusion

Florida Dispensary System Continues to Cause Confusion
Florida Dispensary System Continues to Cause Confusion

After a Court ruled that the Vertical integration system should be changed, Florida’s government is now on deck for their reaction. Governor DeSantis has stated that the ruling is confusing. Although he has concerns about vertical integration, it sounds like more discussion will need to be held for next steps.

By DARA KAMNEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA |JUL 25, 2019 | 1:08 PM

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is asking an appellate court to revisit a decision that Florida officials argue injected “confusion and uncertainty” into the state’s medical marijuana industry.

DeSantis and health officials on Wednesday asked the 1st District Court of Appeal for a hearing by the full court, known as an “en banc” hearing, after a July 9 ruling that Florida’s “vertical integration” system requiring licensed operators to grow, process and distribute cannabis and by-products runs afoul of a constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana.

The decision by a three-judge panel of the court “is of exceptional importance because it implicates whether the entire regulatory framework currently in place for the licensing of medical marijuana treatment centers should be overturned,” lawyers for the state argued in Wednesday’s 28-page motion.

The panel upheld in part a decision issued last year by Leon County Circuit Judge Charles Dodson, who sided with Tampa-based Florigrown in a lawsuit alleging a state law, passed during a 2017 special legislative session, did not properly carry out the 2016 constitutional amendment.

Dodson issued a temporary injunction requiring state health officials to begin registering Florigrown and other medical-marijuana firms to do business, but the judge’s order was put on hold while the state appealed. Licensed operators are known in Florida as medical marijuana treatment centers.

The panel’s “affirmance of a substantively flawed temporary injunction” by Dodson “has introduced further confusion and uncertainty into Florida’s emerging medical marijuana industry,” the state’s lawyers wrote in Wednesday’s motion.

The decision also “presents a dramatic and unprecedented shift in this court’s jurisprudence governing issuance of temporary injunctions,” which could have a significant impact on future cases, the lawyers added.

Wednesday’s widely expected motion also asked the court to refer the case to the Florida Supreme Court — a process known as “certification of a question of great public importance” — if the appeals court refuses to grant a rehearing.

The July 9 ruling by judges Scott Makar, James Wolf and T. Kent Wetherell — who is now a federal judge — gave Florida Department of Health officials “a reasonable amount of time” to begin registering medical marijuana operators.RELATED: Florida law creates ‘oligopoly’ for pot businesses, court decides »

But, even with the panel’s modifications to Dodson’s temporary injunction, the appeals court decision leaves Florida’s medical marijuana program in “a regulatory twilight zone,” the state’s lawyers argued Wednesday.

More info: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-nsf-state-wants-new-hearing-in-pot-case-20190725-d4dbdqqopnb6fg3q4eyuj4dsu4-story.html

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