The legal arguments and Latin phrases voiced in a Montgomery courtroom were hard to understand, but the bottom line was not: Alabama's medical marijuana program will be bogged down in court for at least another month.
More than 25 lawyers were in Montgomery County Circuit Court and about half of them took part in the arguments before Judge James Anderson during a hearing that lasted more than an hour.
It was the latest round of talks in the litigation that started last summer when the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission began trying to issue licenses to the companies that will make and sell the products authorized when the Legislature passed a medical marijuana bill three years ago.
The AMCC has issued licenses to cultivators, processors, secure transporters, and a state testing lab. But licenses in two categories have stalled after litigation and problems with the AMCC's procedures. Those are for dispensaries, which would sell the products, and integrated companies, which would cultivate, process, transport, and dispense the products.
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