The Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission hopes to issue licenses in January, but lawsuits challenge the process.
Legal challenges to efforts by the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission to award licenses to businesses to start the state’s new industry continued at a court hearing Monday afternoon.
But the litigation also proceeds, including the request by Specialty Medical Products of Alabama for a preliminary injunction and a declaration that the AMCC’s scoring system is invalid. That means that all 90 companies that applied for licenses as cultivators, processors, transporters, dispensers, and testing labs still have a chance to make their case with presentations in late November and early December.
“They’re using criteria that we don’t know,” Wallace Mills, the attorney for Specialty Medical Products, told the judge. “They haven’t told us.” Mark Wilkerson, an attorney for the AMCC, told the judge that the scores are not binding and that the commissioners have discretion to make their licensing decisions independently of the scores. That is a point AMCC lawyers and officials have made asserted repeatedly.
The Legislature approved medical marijuana in 2021 and created the AMCC to oversee the seed-to-sale regulation of what will be a fully intrastate industry.
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