Four years since medical cannabis became legal in Alabama and still none of that medicine has reached patients. The licensing body, the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission, has been bogged down in lawsuits filed by businesses that were denied licenses.
A central Alabama grower who did receive a license has been up and running for two years, producing a medical grade marijuana that he has no way to sell. The company is Native Black Cultivation. Workers at their grow operation have been growing medical grade marijuana for two years now. But at this point they haven't been able to sell any of it.
Owner Antoine Mordican said, "Most businesses don't operate for two years, and don't generate revenue. However, we're in a unique, position, because the industry is not able to fully open. However, I have positioned myself in a unique way, that we've been able sustain for this long and still be able to produce."
Mordican is using a hybrid grow system in a greenhouse that combines indoor and outdoor growing methods. That's a less expensive way to do it. And right now, his workers are volunteering their time. That's keeping his expenses low. This crop is almost ready to harvest, it'll be his sixth. Since there's no way to sell his product, it'll be frozen. Typically, it'll keep for about a year, so soon he'll have to destroy his first crop he harvested last year.
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