Earlier this month, the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission awarded eight licenses to companies that qualified as a majority owned by a member of a minority group — defined as individuals of African American, Native American, Hispanic, or Asian descent, according to the commission’s spokesperson.
That’s two more than were awarded licenses by the commission on June 12. All licenses issued on that date, however, were put on hold four days later when the AMCC revealed inconsistencies in the tabulation of scores used to rank applicants. Those licenses were never issued; the commission said the scores were rectified before the most recent meeting.
Among 90 applicants, 24 companies were awarded licenses on August 10 to do business in the state as cultivators, processors, transporters, dispensaries, and a testing lab.
According to the 2021 state law making it legal to grow and distribute medical cannabis in Alabama, at least a quarter of the awardees in all but one category (integrated facility) had to be at least 51% minority-owned.
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