Hernando County decides whether medical marijuana dispensaries open within its borders. Fla. Stat. §381.986 lets a county or city ban dispensing facilities outright, but a local government that allows them may not cap their number or zone them more strictly than pharmacies.
Medical marijuana dispensaries are state-licensed Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers, but siting is a local call under Fla. Stat. §381.986(11). Hernando County or the City of Brooksville may ban dispensing facilities entirely by ordinance. A local government that does not ban them may not limit how many open, and may not impose location rules more restrictive than those it applies to pharmacies licensed under Chapter 465. A dispensing facility also may not locate within 500 feet of a school. The all-or-nothing structure means a community either bans dispensaries or treats them like pharmacies.
A dispensing facility operating in a county or city that banned it, or outside the pharmacy-equivalent zoning a local government allows, faces local code enforcement and state license action against the treatment center.
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