The Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission is facing more legal challenges stemming from the failure to establish a program for medical marijuana, nearly four years after it was legalized in the state. A new lawsuit was filed in Montgomery on Friday by five families on behalf of their children.
The lawsuit says each of those children has a condition that is treatable with medical cannabis. But the lawsuit argues the board overseeing medical cannabis has not taken key, and legally required, steps toward making that treatment a reality.
The lawsuit is different than the ongoing court battles over medical marijuana business licenses that have been waged for nearly two years.
Medical marijuana was legalized in Alabama in 2021, but the process has been stalled over court challenges to how the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission handled the licensing award process.
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