Jim Rosica
State medical marijuana regulators are slated to hold three rulemaking hearings Monday in Tallahassee.
The Department of Health regulates the drug through its Office of Medical Marijuana Use.
The first hearing, at 9 a.m., will cover a proposed rule on the “Medical Marijuana Treatment Center Supplemental Licensing Fee,” the “annual payment by a registered (provider) to cover the (state’s) costs of administering” the law governing cannabis.
The fee has been set at $174,844, “due within 45 days of the effective date of this rule.”
The second, at 11 a.m., is on change of ownership applications, “establishing a procedure for the Florida Department of Health to process ownership transfer requests made by a medical marijuana treatment center (MMTC).” (Florida has a vertically-integrated market, meaning the same provider grows, processes and sells its own marijuana.)
One such deal was just in the news. Last week, MedMen Enterprises Inc. of Los Angeles announced it had agreed to pay $53 million for the license held by Central Florida’s Treadwell Nursery, which is now authorized to grow but not yet sell. A Department of Health spokesman said the agency “will review” the proposed sale once it’s received.
Here’s one excerpt: If a provider “intends to claim any exemption from public records disclosure … (as) part of its transfer request, it shall indicate on the request the specific sections for which it claims an exemption and the statutory basis for the exemption … All identified trade secrets are subject to review by the department.”
The third hearing, at 1 p.m., is on an MMTC “variance procedure.” It would “establish a procedure for the Department of Health to grant variances from the representations made in a medical marijuana treatment center’s initial application for registration.”
For example, if that rule is approved, a provider who had originally applied to use a certain marijuana processing procedure can later ask to use a newer, better technology.
All three hearings take place in Room 301 at the department’s offices in the Capital Circle Office Center, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Tallahassee.
3 comments
Matthew Grande
June 11, 2018 at 10:56 am
Judge Gievers set a date that the department of health has to change rules to make smokeable flower legal and available June 11, 2018. What does this above have to do with what she passed in court last week? I love how our state just does what they want when they want. Those rules above are for the wealthy. The Florida medical marijuana system is greatly flawed due to the department of health and our state politicians doing nothing but postponing Amendment 2 for as long as they can and making it as watered down as they can. Pharma rules baby, these peeps have fat pockets from KILLING our citizens through unsafe pharmaceutical medications.
jeff
June 11, 2018 at 11:32 am
right man WTF!!
Ben James
June 11, 2018 at 10:39 pm
Buying overwhelming margin or supermajority Floridians passed a constitutional amendment to allow the consumption of medical cannabis. Since then Rick Scott and GOP legislators in the state of Florida have been doing everything they could to stop cannabis legalization. Passing regulations that restricted smoking cannabis as a method of consumption was nothing more than a blatant attempt to deny the will of the people. Remember next time when you vote who it was that deliberately denied the will of the vast majority.
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