medical marijuana

Cannabis sales increased to $30 billion last year. That's a 40% increase from 2020. The United States is expected to make up 75% of global cannabis sales by the year 2026.

State health regulators on Monday set in motion a process to issue up to 22 more medical-marijuana licenses. The highly anticipated move could double the size of Florida’s medical-cannabis industry.

Trulieve laid off an unspecified number of workers over the past few weeks at facilities in North Florida, where its grow operations are based. The lawsuit says workers in Quincy, Monticello, and Midway were impacted.

State health officials deemed the application submitted by Moton Hopkins and Hatchett Creek Farms, of which he owned 51 percent, to be the cream of the crop. After he died, they decided to award the license to someone else.

Florida’s new pot czar is an attorney who spent more than two decades in the U.S. Navy and served in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps.

The lawsuit filed Wednesday challenges federal restrictions that can prevent people from buying and possessing guns if they obtain medical marijuana in Florida.

State health officials are asking an administrative law judge to permanently ban a Tallahassee physician from ordering medical marijuana for patients, suspend his medical license for five years and impose a $10,000 fine, after an investigation that included undercover agents posing as patients.

In 2017, one medical marijuana license was set aside specifically for a Black farmer and has not yet been given out. This month, the Florida Department of Health put out an emergency rule specifying how Black farmers can apply for that license. Florida Agriculture Commissioner and gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried wants the state to revisit its rule.

It's been a big year for the North-Florida-based medical marijuana company, Trulieve. Earlier this month, it became the nation's largest cannabis operator. Now, it's opened its 100th Florida store—and went back its roots for the occasion. WFSU spoke with Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers about navigating a still-growing industry amid a pandemic.

Trulieve, the state’s largest medical marijuana operator, is now the nation’s biggest cannabis retailer, after closing on a $2.1 billion deal to acquire former competitor Harvest Health & Recreation Inc. The transaction marks a major development in Florida, where Harvest held one of 22 licenses to cultivate, process and sell medical marijuana to a growing patient population.