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Press Release - Alabama Cannabis Coalition Condemns Governor Ivey and Legislature for Stripping Legal Access to Cannabis While Celebrating Big Pharma Expansion
12/10/2025
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Alabama Cannabis Coalition
Date: December 2025
Alabama Cannabis Coalition Condemns Governor Ivey and Legislature for Stripping Legal Access to Cannabis While Celebrating Big Pharma Expansion
The Alabama Cannabis Coalition (ACC) is sounding the alarm on the continued betrayal of Alabama citizens as state leaders choose to protect pharmaceutical interests over the health, freedom, and rights of the people they were elected to represent.
Under the guidance of Governor Kay Ivey, the Alabama Legislature passed HB445—legislation that removed “legal” access to hemp-derived products used safely and effectively by thousands of Alabamians. At the same time, SB46/2021, the law that was supposed to provide “medical” access to cannabis more than four years ago, remains unimplemented. The result is clear: Alabama created a state-sanctioned medical cannabis cartel that has not served a single sick, suffering, or dying resident.
While patients continue to wait—and while citizens lose access to the very products that were providing relief—Governor Ivey and Alabama’s elected Representatives are proudly celebrating the grand opening of a pharmaceutical facility known for its opposition to cannabis. This celebration comes at the exact moment when Alabamians are being denied access to the natural plant medicine they have demanded for more than a decade.
“It is unacceptable and immoral,” said the Alabama Cannabis Coalition. “Our Governor is cheering the arrival of more synthetic pharmaceuticals—many with long lists of dangerous side effects—while simultaneously denying citizens safe, legal access to cannabis. The people of Alabama deserve better.”
For more than 88 years, Alabama has upheld cannabis prohibition policies that harm families, criminalize patients, and empower monopolies. The passage of HB445 and the failure to implement SB46/2021 make one thing painfully clear: patient access, public health, and civil liberties are not priorities for this administration.
The Alabama Cannabis Coalition calls on lawmakers to immediately:
• Restore legal access to hemp-derived products.
• Implement SB46/2021 without further delay.
• End cannabis prohibition and prevent pharmaceutical monopolies from controlling natural medicine.
• Protect the rights, health, and freedom of Alabama citizens—not corporate interests.
“Alabamians deserve access, not excuses. They deserve freedom, not criminalization. They deserve cannabis—not another pharmaceutical monopoly masquerading as progress.”
The Alabama Cannabis Coalition will continue to advocate fiercely during the 2026 Legislative Session to overturn HB445, restore access, and end the political manipulation that has harmed citizens for far too long.
*Please direct all request for media interviews to Jennifer Boozer Stewart, Communications Director of the Alabama Cannabis Coalition:
jenniferboozerstewart@gmail.com
(251)303-5193
H Marty Schelper
Founder/President
Alabama Cannabis Coalition
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🚨 CALL TO ACTION: REPEAL HB4445 🚨
Alabama’s cannabis community needs your voice. HB4445 threatens progress, patients, and the future of fair access in our state — and we can’t stay silent.
Your representatives need to hear from YOU.
✅ Visit our AL Legislation Page
✅ Find your local legislators’ contact information
✅ Call, email, and demand they REPEAL HB4445
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