The Alabama Medical Hashish Fee (AMCC) on Thursday issued an administrative keep on its licensing course of, AL.com experiences. The keep comes after the fee has twice did not situation licenses, first after “potential inconsistencies” in scoring information and once more after a choose granted a brief restraining order discovering the company had violated the state’s open conferences legislation.
The AMCC is known as in two lawsuits associated to the licensing course of: one over the open conferences legislation violation claims, and one other over its plan to void and reissue the permits. On Monday, the AMCC informed a choose that it deliberate to “begin again at sq. one” within the licensing course of.
AMCC Chair Rex Vaughn informed AL.com that it was unclear whether or not licenses could be awarded on the subsequent fee assembly on September 19 and that whether or not the company may transfer ahead would rely upon what occurs at a September 6 court docket listening to.
Vaughn mentioned the AMCC wouldn’t redo the scores by evaluators recruited by the College of South Alabama – which the company has admitted have inconsistencies – and would proceed to make use of the scores as a “guideline” to assist make licensing choices.
Vaughn added that the fee wouldn’t maintain one other closed assembly within the licensing course of – a follow that has drawn a lawsuit. Vaughn added that attempting to foretell the timeline for issuing licenses is “getting extra difficult by the day” because of the lawsuits and scoring points.
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