PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—For 630 days a warehouse in Lakeland has sat vacant—waiting on a shipment of drugs from Canada that never came.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Aug. 31 that he “has waited long enough” and is filing suit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to “put an end to” delays.
DeSantis told a crowd in Lakeland that he found a 20-year-old law that would allow the states to apply to Health and Human Services to purchase drugs from Canada.
After a meeting with then-president Donald Trump, it was agreed that he could do this, and submitted all the necessary paperwork to the FDA where it has sat since the “later part of 2020,” he said….