Colorado cannabis company to expand in Florida county despite marijuana moratorium
A Colorado cannabis company will open three dispensaries in a Florida county that had previously tried to avoid approving its application by issuing a temporary moratorium on marijuana businesses.
The Green Solutionplans to add three medical marijuana dispensariesto its fold in Osceola County,Orlando Business Journalfirst reported.The countys seat of Kissimmee is located 18 miles south of Orlando, and the 1,500-square-mile county has a population north of 330,000.
Three medical marijuana dispensary certificates were issued on Feb. 19 to The Green Solution, Osceola County announced Feb. 20. Following that action, county commissioners enacted a ban on any new marijuana facilities.
The company, which has 15 dispensaries in Colorado, had previously applied for three dispensary certificates in Osceola County pursuant to 2017 rules,The Green Solution National President Trent Woloveck told The Cannabist. They received the required county staff recommendation for the certificates in June 2017.
The recommendation for the issuance of the certificates appeared on the Osceola County Commissioners board agenda on June 19, Woloveck said. Instead of issuing the certificates, the county instituted a temporary moratorium on marijuana businesses that very day.
His company had a vested right to the issuance of the certificates, Woloveck said.
In return for this settlement approved by commissioners, The Green Solution agreed to take no legal action against the county, according to Osceola Countys statement.
This is an equitable solution to this matter and gives us, as the local jurisdiction, the power to prevent an out-of-control proliferation of these facilities ...
