A new law won’t help a nursery whose score was a fraction of a percent less than the winner of a highly sought-after medical marijuana license in Central Florida, an administrative law judge ruled.

McCrory’s Sunny Hill Nursery, which joined forces with three other growers and purchased a 180,000-square-foot facility in Lake Wales with the hopes of receiving a license, argued, based on a 2016 law, that it should receive one of the state licenses without having to go through a process of being re-evaluated.