Alabama Medical Marijuana Sales Set To Finally Begin Next Month, Five Years After Lawmakers Approved Legalization

Alabama Medical Marijuana Sales Set To Finally Begin Next Month, Five Years After Lawmakers Approved Legalization

“What this means for Alabama is patients will be getting the much-needed medicine they need. We’ve had the program now for five years, [and] there’s been a crazy delay.” By Anna Barrett, Alabama Reflector Nearly five years after the Alabama Legislature approved a medical cannabis program in the state, the weeks-long process of producing and testing products for patients has begun, setting up an early May availability for patients. Antoine Mordic…

Medical cannabis expected in Alabama dispensaries in early May

Antoine Mordican, CEO of Native Black Cultivation, holds part of a cannabis plant at his growing facility in Bessemer. Mordican distributed raw plant to Homestead Health, a processor, earlier this month, setting in motion the process of getting medical cannabis product on the shelves of Alabama dispensaries, five years after the program was created. (Courtesy of Antoine Mordican. Photo by Amir Muhammad, Quail King Productions)Nearly five years a…