{"id":1817,"date":"2017-08-23T17:36:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T17:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2017-08-23T17:46:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T17:46:09","slug":"florida-approves-5-new-nurseries-to-grow-medical-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/2017\/08\/23\/florida-approves-5-new-nurseries-to-grow-medical-cannabis\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida approves 5 new nurseries to grow Medical Cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1820\" src=\"http:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1200x628-med-mmj.001-1024x536.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1200x628-med-mmj.001-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1200x628-med-mmj.001-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1200x628-med-mmj.001-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1200x628-med-mmj.001.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Health has granted five new MMTC Licences in the last few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The new Growers selected are:<\/h2>\n<p>Treadwell Nursery,<\/p>\n<p>Sunbulb Company<\/p>\n<p>3 Boys Farm, Plants of Ruskin<\/p>\n<p>Loop\u2019s Nursery<\/p>\n<p>Greenhouse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Treadwell Nursery has been selected as Central Florida\u2019s second medical marijuana grower. Treadwell, in north Lake County, has not yet gotten the approval to grow cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Knox Nursery grows medical cannabis in Winter Garden and has a retail MMTC in Orlando.\u00a0During the last legislative session, Florida lawmakers approved a bill to implement Amendment 2, the medical marijuana amendment approved by voters. That bill requires the state to add 10 new medical cannabis growers by October of this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The barrier to entry is still the highest in the country.Applications for medical marijuana treatment centers are still closed and when they do open They will require a $65,000 \u00a0application fee, the highest in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"mantis__recommended__wordpress\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\">\n    MANTIS_RECOMMEND = {\n        property: '556c86bbbf60bd001d672ecb',\n        render: 'mantis__recommended__wordpress'\n    };\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\">\n\tvar z = document.createElement(\"script\");\n\tz.type = \"text\/javascript\";\n\tz.async = true;\n\tz.src = \"\/\/assets.mantisadnetwork.com\/recommend.min.js\";\n\tvar s = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];\n\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(z, s);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<link href=\"\/\/assets.mantisadnetwork.com\/recommend.3columns.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Department of Health has granted five new MMTC Licences in the last few weeks. &nbsp; The new Growers selected are: Treadwell Nursery, Sunbulb Company 3 Boys Farm, Plants of Ruskin Loop\u2019s Nursery Greenhouse. &nbsp; Treadwell Nursery has been selected as Central Florida\u2019s second medical marijuana grower. Treadwell, in north Lake County, has not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1200x628-med-mmj.001.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}