Members of the Alabama Medical Hashish Fee (AMCC) voted to scale back most marijuana enterprise license charges by 25% throughout a Thursday assembly.
With annual license charges starting from $30,000 to $40,000, the regulatory company will lose income totaling $147,500, AMCC spokesperson Brittany Peters instructed 1819 Information.
“It’s only a one-time discount,” Peters mentioned.
“They’ll return to the charge schedule that was adopted by the fee in 2022 after that.”
A number of Alabama medical marijuana cultivators that received licenses in December 2023 requested for the charge discount, arguing that operations are stalled by ongoing authorized arguments in regards to the licensing course of.
Oral arguments are set for Jan. 13 in a single medical marijuana-related lawsuit.
“It prices some huge cash to run a hashish cultivation plant,” 1819 Information reported John Reeves, proprietor of CRC of Alabama, as saying throughout a gathering of the AMCC.
“We’re working and have completely nothing coming in,” he mentioned.
