John McMillan, director of the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission, speaking at the commission’s meeting on Dec. 11, 2025, in the Alabama State House in Montgomery, Alabama. McMillan said that most of the findings in an audit of the commission released on Friday were due to “growing pains” of starting a new state agency. (Anna Barrett/Alabama Reflector)
An audit of the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (AMCC) released Friday found that the agency overpaid a vendor and violated the Alabama Open Meetings Act within its first four years of operation.
The Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts found that the AMCC paid a vendor $604,000 for a legal services contract that should have been $400,000 between May 2021 and September 2025, which led to the vendor filing a claim with the Alabama Board of Adjustments, according to the report…