An October 2022 update from Florida’s Office of Medical Marijuana Use (OMMU), though, reports the number of patients with medical marijuana cards had ballooned to 758,526. That’s because Quebec-headquartered Alimentation Couche-Tard is the parent company of Circle K convenience stores, which number 9,799 throughout North America, including 8,594 with road transportation fuel dispensing. Circle K has about 600 locations in the state. In Florida, medical marijuana treatment centres “dispense low-THC cannabis and medical marijuana to qualified patients and caregivers as recommended by their qualified ordering physician at approved dispensing locations and via delivery,” according to OMMU. We’d love to hear from you. Rollout of 10 dispensaries to begin next year Starting in 2023, the test and learn phase of Green Thumb’s rollout will begin with about 10 RISE Express-branded dispensaries adjacent to Circle K stores in various Florida locations, notes a statement from the company.
Medical marijuana cardholders in Florida can look forward to pumping gas and picking up prescriptions at the same time as part of a new partnership between Green Thumb Industries Inc. and Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.
While recreational cannabis remains off-limits in the state — possessing less than 20 grams of the drug is punishable by a year in jail and a $1,370 fine upon conviction — medical marijuana is allowed.
Indeed, some might argue medicinal cannabis is thriving in the somewhat red state, with the Marijuana...
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