The Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission is aiming to award licenses to growers and distributors by the end of the year after a bumpy roll out of the state’s medical marijuana program that has included multiple lawsuits over the selection process.
The commission on Thursday adopted an emergency rule approving a new process for selecting license winners. Companies will make presentations to the commission. Commissioners can also consider scores that were previously awarded to submitted applications.
Losing companies have accused commissioners of using a flawed selection process that failed to consider how quickly a company could begin producing marijuana and also ofWill Somerville, a lawyer representing Alabama Always, said he believes the new process is a step in the right direction that will allow the company to make a presentation to commissioners. He said the previous license awards were made on “how pretty is your application and not whether you can really do it.
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