Cannabis Commission to disregard scoring in issuing licenses as part of settlement agreement

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission voted Monday to adopt the terms of a settlement agreement that, commission members hope, will prevent future lawsuits over the state’s rollout of medical marijuana production.

Meeting at the State House, AMCC members were scheduled to hear presentations from ten different organizations, all of them vying for licenses to grow medical marijuana. But first, the commission had one item on its agenda: to ratify the terms of a recently reached settlement agreement.

That agreement was the result of several months’ worth of lawsuits targeting the AMCC over the methods in which it awarded a limited number of licenses to grow and sell medical marijuana in the state.