Chicago-based Verano Holdings filed a lawsuit against the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission, less than two weeks after the agency revoked a business license it had initially awarded the marijuana multistate operator.
Verano is the second company this month to sue the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (AMCC) over the state’s MMJ licensing process.
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The AMCC awarded an initial 21 cannabis business licenses in June.
But the agency reversed that licensing round – and was sued – after finding “potential inconsistencies” in how the University of South Alabama evaluated those business license applications.
Despite winning one of the five vertically integrated licenses the state will allot with the “highest score” of any applicant, Verano Alabama did not win a permit in the second round announced in August.
Verano was the only applicant awarded a license in June that was not re-awarded a license in August.
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