Winter Garden nursery, 4 other growers get medical-marijuana licenses

The Florida Department of Health has awarded licenses to Knox Nursery in Central Florida and four other growers in other regions of the state to become the first in Florida to legally grow marijuana and manufacture medicines from it.

Knox, a Winter Garden greenhouse operator, was selected from among eight companies vying to get the state’s exclusive license for the 18-county region that forms a broad swath from St. Petersburg to Daytona Beach and includes Orlando.

The Florida Department of Health issued the…