Alabama’s Medical Marijuana Commission Hopes That New Licensing Plan Can Deliver Products by Spring

Thursday – the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission adopted a plan for evaluating business license applicants, which calls for licenses to be issued in January – with products available about three months later.

Under that plan, the AMCC will hear presentations from license applicants in late November and early December, and the AMCC will award licenses in early December.  After a due diligence period that will include site inspections, as well as an opportunity for investigative hearings for applicants denied licenses the AMCC plans to issue licenses on January 9th.

AMCC Chair Rex Vaughn said if the timeline does hold, products should be available by spring of 2024, considering what he said was an approximate 90-day window – running from the start of cultivation to sales starting in licensed dispensaries.  The Legislature approved medical marijuana in 2021 – and also created the AMCC to oversee the new industry.  The AMCC will license cultivators, processors, dispensaries, transporters – and testing labs, including a number of integrated companies that’ll be authorized to cultivate, process, transport, and dispense.

 (www.AL.COM)