Licensing & Applications

Part of the reason we started a Cannabis Industry team at a Southeastern-based law firm before any Southeastern state had adopted a marijuana program was because we had a hunch that the expansion of cannabis would eventually make its way to our neck of the woods. And we guess it was just kind of a

Legend has it that Alice Cooper originally titled his hit “Preschool’s Out Forever.” I made that up, but it occurred to me when I read a headline from Law360 that read “Under Pot Law, Preschool Isn’t ‘School,’ Ariz. Court Rules.”

This is one of those decisions that makes you wonder how we ended up in

Over the past nearly two years, I have been talking to friends, clients, and basically anyone at parties about the slow progress (if I might be permitted to use that word in this context) of the Alabama medical cannabis program. Those conversations have afforded me the opportunity to examine a series of how the great

The Alabama medical cannabis program has been FUBAR for a while now, but there was at least some good news for two applicants last week.

The Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (AMCC), at its meeting on August 8, 2024, awarded additional cultivator licenses to Pure by Sirmon Farms, LLC and Blackberry Farms, LLC, following the completion

Having spent nearly every day of the last three years thinking about Alabama’s medical cannabis licensing, and the past year closely following the seemingly endless litigation that continues to this day, I took special note of a recent decision of the Missouri Supreme Court affirming the denial of a cannabis license to an applicant that