How to start a commercial grow operation in Florida

Actually, Melvin, these are facts & the point Mr. T is trying to make concerns only that there is very little a person can do to start a Med MJ "treatment center" (or MMTC [a dispensary] as they're known here. Current legislation coupled with Vertical Integration has kept the privateer small batch grower from being able to enter the FL medical MJ market. I'm not 100% sure about the accuracy of my next statement; but I think at least 90% of the existing MMTC(s) in Florida are out of state operations who've been afforded the luxury of their license because they are "seed to store" operations. This means they grow it, they package it & they sell it from their dispensary storefronts or via their delivery service. If you want to grow/ distribute in FL this is what you are required to do: have the garden, grow your product & maintain that facility while also stocking, operating & maintaining the storefront & delivery team. There is no "herb courier service"; there's no chance to sell your "tested-safe" small batch product in a store-front which is not your own; and if you do aspire to owning your own cannabis farm & distribution chain the "seed to store" method is all Florida will currently allow making it a very "monopolized" market. If there was only one company in FL who operated ALL the dispensaries in Florida it would be a TRUE monopoly market but there are like 5 or 10 MMJ companies operating here so the market is not EXACTLY and fully monopolized - but it's also not far from it. So, yea, Melvin - we're all happy to see how excited you are to finally be able to get what you need at many places in Florida now! It is surely a very exciting time for Florida's MMJ market - the cruelty is done in Florida (mostly.) But just don't forget when you're buying your meds: you're not likely to be supporting a local Florida business. Instead, you're supporting an operation which is much more like a corporation and is probably owned & run by somebody in another state. There were people who capitalized like this after the civil war ended as well - they were called "carpet-baggers" and they were richer northerners who moved south to take advantage of of the war-weakened southerners by selling the southerners the things they needed at ridiculous prices - much the same as the dispensaries do today. Currently in Florida we are paying black-market prices for legal-market products after already paying twice per year for the "license" to purchase those products. It's an extremely convoluted arena and it's also far from perfect. But at least we can legally purchase and possess our med here now - yay. Less Content