The medical cannabis debacle continues.

In a theme that has become way too common, a representative from the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission was before the Alabama Legislature’s Contract Review Committee on Thursday asking for more money to pay lawyers.

So far, the attorneys are the only ones to benefit from the legislature’s decision in 2021 to pass medical cannabis legislation. Going on five years later, we have yet to provide a single patient with actual cannabis.

But we’ve provided a bunch of attorneys with millions in taxpayer dollars.

All to litigate a process that those same lawyers screwed up.

Quite a gig, no? Getting paid to defend the process you clearly botched, while simultaneously refusing to completely fix the botch so you continue to get paid.

On Thursday, it was a

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