One of the companies suing the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (AMCC) on Tuesday asked a judge to permanently toss all three of the agency’s attempts to issue integrated licenses and declare the AMCC’s appeal process void, WBRC reports.
In the lawsuit against the AMCC, Alabama Always LLC alleges the commission violated the state’s Open Meets Act and the Alabama Administrative Procedures Act during its three attempts to issue integrated medical cannabis licenses. Last week the state Court of Civil Appeals rejected a bid by the AMCC to dismiss the legal challenges to medical cannabis licenses, which keeps the case in front of a Montgomery County Circuit judge. Earlier this month, companies awarded medical cannabis licenses by the AMCC – and attorneys for the agency – asked Montgomery County Circuit Judge James Anderson to lift a temporary injunction that has blocked the firms from beginning operations. Anderson has not issued a ruling on that request.
Alabama’s medical cannabis licensing process has been plagued by delays dating back to 2021: first, the licensing process was paused due to “potential inconsistencies in the tabulation of scoring data; then, a lawsuit claimed