“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 Mordican, CEO of Native Black Cultivation, said in a phone interview Tuesday that he sent the first biomass, or cannabis flour, to Homestead Health, a processor, on April 10. Mordican grows and harvests medical marijuana on his farm in Bessemer.
“Alabama doesn’t allow anything smokable, so no flour, no vape. If you have to add heat to it, the state of Alabama don’t allow it,” Mordican said.
Once the state’s medical cannabis program is fully operational with all its dispensaries open, Mordican said he will distribute biomass to all processors who are granted licenses by the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (AMCC). The processors take the biomass and extract the THC oil, then produce the approved products with the oil.
Products are restricted to tablets, tinctures, patches, oils and gummies (only
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