An Alabama judge Tuesday said he would enter another temporary restraining order on the stalled licensing process for medical cannabis licenses. Montgomery County Circuit Judge James Anderson directed companies denied a license and the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (AMCC) to provide a jointly proposed order that would allow investigative hearings on awarded licenses to continue but would prevent those licenses from being issued.
"I'm not really happy about telling somebody exactly what to do, but that's my intent to have that into place to make sure that everybody's rights [are protected], even the people who have gotten licenses," Anderson said.
The commission initially objected, citing its own stay preventing licenses from being issued, but it agreed to a modified restraining order allowing AMCC to proceed with investigative hearings and outlining the process to denied applicants.
The new restraining order comes from a request from Alabama Always, one of the companies denied a license in all three rounds. They also challenged licenses that were awarded on top of their own denied licenses, arguing that they can't properly argue why they should have a license without arguing why the other company got one.
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