After more than four years of delays, lawsuits and false starts, the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission voted Thursday to award the state’s first medical marijuana dispensary licenses, clearing the biggest and most pressing roadblock between patients and a functioning program. This morning at the State House, the commission moved forward with issuing the state’s first The post Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission votes to clear biggest hurdle yet for long-stalled program appeared first on Yellowhammer News.

The Alabama Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, is joining a growing list of Alabama cities suing the state over the Simplified Sellers Use Tax, filing a new lawsuit that argues Alabama’s current online sales tax structure shortchanges public schools. According to the AEA press release, the organization has formally entered litigation challenging how The post AEA joins wave of lawsuits challenging Alabama’s online sales tax appeared first on Yellowhammer News.

History is going to be made on The Plains. But we’ll all have to wait a while for it. On Thursday, the official social media account for Troy’s football program announced the Troy Trojans and Auburn Tigers are going to square off on the football field for the first time in history. The game will The post Auburn, Troy set for historic showdown at Jordan-Hare… In 2031 appeared first on Yellowhammer News.

Lawmakers love taxes, maybe not raising them, but they surely love having them, and they don’t want to give up what they have. The Simplified Seller Use Tax is sending money all over the state, but the bigger cities do not like it; they want to keep more of their locally collected SSUT. But the The post Alabama’s Simplified Sellers Use Tax is not simple at all, and a ‘fix’ everyone likes won’t be easy appeared first on Yellowhammer News.