Advocates frustrated by lack of medical cannabis in Alabama, treatment legalized four years ago

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — It has been nearly four and a half years since medical cannabis was legalized in Alabama.

But medical cannabis is still not available to Alabama patients.

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Advocates say many thousands of people have been waiting for the relief that treatment promises, but it is not clear if those delays will soon be over.

The most significant development in recent months is that there is now an agreed-upon process laid out for businesses that didn’t get a medical cannabis license — to challenge the decisions. Lawsuits challenging the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission’s selection process have been moving through the courts for the past few years, effectively putting the program on hold. The plaintiffs say the commission could have moved it forward sooner, if it had followed existing law…

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