As Florida’s medical marijuana providers and patients geared up to start producing and selling the natural medicine across the Sunshine State earlier this year, no one was foolish enough to overlook the threat of mother nature. With a fickle product easily affected by flooding, rot, wind and more, the brand new industry had been anxiously awaiting its first encounter with the southeast state’s notorious hurricane season.
Now, after Hurricane Irma’s 140 mph winds tore apart huge swaths of the state, the Miami Herald has reported that the infantile industry is still standing, with a number of medical marijuana cultivators reporting that, despite damage from the category 4 storm, patients can still expect their product to arrive at retailers on schedule.
“We were thankfully spared the worst of the storm and have fared well considering the plight of others,” Flor Santiesteban, a spokesman for Miami-Dade based Modern Health Concepts, said. “Our cultivation and processing facilities are up and running with backup power at the moment, and we resumed filling patient orders yesterday.”
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