Alabama Officials Re-Award Medical Marijuana Business Licenses – Medical Marijuana Program Connection

“We will reevaluate, go through the investigative process and see where we are. So those of you who have not received a license today don’t lose heart. I think there may be another day.”

By Alander Rocha, Alabama Reflector

The Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission Thursday re-awarded the licenses for the production and distribution of medical cannabis after questions about the evaluation of applications stopped the process in June.

Nearly all the firms awarded licenses two months ago got them back, and the commission granted additional licenses to firms looking to grow medical cannabis. Rex Vaughn, elected chair of the commission on Thursday, told denied applicants that the commission may have an “appetite” to consider new applications in the future, once they “see where [they] are with the current licenses.”

“We will reevaluate, go through the investigative process and see where we are,” he said. “So those of you who have not received a license today don’t lose heart. I think there may be another day.”

The commission restored licenses to all previous winning applicants except Chicago-based Verano. The commission did not discuss the reason for denying Verano’s application. Members also increased the number of cultivator licenses granted from four to seven.

The commission can award up to 12 licenses to cultivate cannabis, four licenses for those who want to process it and four licenses to dispense the product.

Commissioners may also provide up to…