State picks North Florida farmer for pot license - Jacksonville Business Journal

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State picks North Florida farmer for pot license

Sep 22, 2022

Gwinn has cultivated watermelons, soybeans, peanuts, corn and peas on the 1,137-acre farm and has “deep roots in the community,” it said. That earlier round of licenses was based on a 2014 law that legalized non-euphoric cannabis for a limited number of patients. The 2017 law laid out a schedule for new licenses to come online as the number of patients who have qualified for the cannabis treatment grows. With more than 750,000 patients, the law calls for at least 22 more licenses, including the one announced this week.administration put the Black farmer license at the front of the line in awarding additional licenses after the Florida Supreme Court last year ruled in a key case challenging part of the 2017 law.

 

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