Late last week, after nearly five years of controversies and legal holdups, the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission, AMCC, approved an order granting dispensary licenses to four applicants—RJK Holdings LLC, CCS of Alabama LLC, GP6 Wellness LLC, and Yellowhammer Medical Dispensaries LLC. Now, Alabama could see as many as 12 medical marijuana dispensaries open next year.
While the news is a welcome breakthrough for the Alabama Cannabis Coalition—a grassroots advocacy group looking to expand access to cannabis in the state—the organization remains critical of the AMCC, bemoaning the limited number of licenses approved and the commission’s slow pace of implementation.
“The Alabama Cannabis Coalition, ACC, is calling out the State of Alabama’s failed approach to ‘medical’ cannabis as the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission moves to award only twelve dispensary licenses statewide—more than four and a half years after the passage of SB46 in 2021,” the Coalition stated in a recent press release…