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Drew WilsonMay 22, 2018

Lobby firm Floridian Partners may have broken into the seven-figure club during the first three months of 2018. Recently filed compensation reports show the firm brought in at least $750,000 in pay for its legislative and executive lobbying efforts, though top-end estimates show it could have grossed up to $1.4 million during the 90-day reporting […]

Jim RosicaJuly 27, 2017

Arising from the shell of a former Super-Lube, Miami-based Knox Medical Thursday opened its first medical marijuana dispensary in the state’s capital. When asked why he opened on a busy Midtown Tallahassee corner, sandwiched between two older residential neighborhoods, co-founder Bruce Knox mentioned the site’s “access and visibility.” “This is a great location to serve the […]

Scott PowersDecember 7, 2016

Behind barbed-wire fences and armed guards, an unmarked, nondescript block building invisible from the road features countless surveillance cameras, a walk-in safe, explosion-proof rooms, and labs stocked with equipment that would make any college chemistry department envious, such as an inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometer. This is not Bruce Knox‘s father’s flower nursery. Not anymore. Welcome to Knox Medical LLC’s facilities […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterDecember 6, 2016

Knox Medical will soon begin dispensing medical marijuana to qualified patients. The company announced Tuesday it recently received approval from the Florida Department of Health to begin dispensing low-THC and medical cannabis this week. The company is set to begin initial deliveries to qualified patients Friday. Knox Medical is one of six organizations in the […]

Keith MorelliJune 7, 2016

In December 2014, McCrory’s Sunny Hill Nursery in Eustis, along with Grow Healthy Farms Florida spent nearly $2 million for a 33-acre tract of property on which sat an old Sealy Mattress factory. The plan was to convert the making of pillow tops to pot buds in a massive medical marijuana grow house. But along […]

Scott PowersMay 23, 2016

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Central Florida’s licensed producer and distributor of medical marijuana products received conditional state permission to start growing cannabis at its Winter Garden greenhouses. Knox Nursery received its cultivation authorization from the Florida Department of Health on May 13, making it the fourth of six licensed medical marijuana companies to get permission to plant seeds. The […]

Associated PressDecember 10, 2015

The Florida nurseries selected to cultivate and distribute the first medical marijuana in the state have successfully reached their first benchmark. All five have posted their $5 million performance bonds mandated by the Department of Health. The deadline was Wednesday at the close of business. The Office of Compassionate Care selected the five nurseries on […]

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Floridian Partners cracked $1M in first-quarter earnings

Once a quick lube shop, now a marijuana dispensary

Knox Medical opens doors to Florida’s medical marijuana future

Knox Medical to begin dispensing medical marijuana this week

Administrative judge says McCrory’s Sunny Hill Nursery not entitled to medical pot license

Knox Nursery gets state permission to start growing pot

Florida nurseries post their required performance bonds