Alabama temporarily reduces most marijuana license fees
- The Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (AMCC) voted to reduce most marijuana business license fees by 25% during a recent meeting.
- This reduction in fees will amount to a total revenue loss of $147,500 for the regulatory agency.
- The fee reduction is a one-time measure in response to requests from medical marijuana cultivators facing delays due to ongoing legal disputes.
- The reduced fees will be in effect until a return to the previously adopted fee schedule in 2022.
Members of the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (AMCC) voted to reduce most marijuana business license fees by 25% during a Thursday meeting.
With annual license fees ranging from $30,000 to $40,000, the regulatory agency will lose revenue totaling $147,500, AMCC spokesperson Brittany Peters told 1819 News.
“It’s just a one-time reduction,” Peters said.
“They’ll return to the fee schedule that was adopted by the commission in 2022 after that.”
Several Alabama medical marijuana cultivators that won licenses in December 2023 asked for the fee reduction, arguing that operations are stalled by ongoing legal arguments about the licensing process.
Oral arguments are set for Jan. 13 in one medical marijuana-related lawsuit.
“It costs a lot of money to run a cannabis cultivation plant,” 1819 News reported John Reeves, owner of CRC of Alabama, as saying during a meeting of the AMCC.
“We’re operating and have absolutely nothing coming in,” he said.