Sustainable Alabama asked Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge James Anderson on Thursday to modify a temporary restraining order that had been placed on the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission for months.
Sustainable Alabama filed a lawsuit on Thursday asking the court to allow the commission to issue their company a license since it continues to have to “pour money into operations” after over a year of delays due to litigation from other companies competing for a finite number of licenses.
The commission awarded the company one of five integrated facility licenses to cultivate, dispense, process, transport, and sell medical cannabis three times in 2023. However, the program has been held up in litigation since last summer.
“To sustain its status, Sustainable must continue to pour money into operations. The only other option is to quit, and the continued imposition of the Court’s sweeping injunction now puts that on the table,” Joel Connally, an attorney representing Sustainable Alabama, said in a filing on Thursday.
Connally said the company “now faces a mounting decision of whether maintaining the effort to obtain the license is worth it.”
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