Growing marijuana at home is a crime everywhere in Alabama, including unincorporated Madison County. Possessing marijuana for personal use is unlawful possession in the second degree, a Class A misdemeanor under Code Section 13A-12-214; a home grow is charged as possession.
Alabama has no legal recreational or home-grow cannabis. Code Section 13A-12-214 makes possessing marijuana for personal use only a Class A misdemeanor, and because cultivating plants means possessing marijuana, a home grow is prosecuted as possession. Possession for other than personal use, which a cultivated crop can indicate, is unlawful possession in the first degree under Section 13A-12-213, a Class C felony. The only lawful cannabis is medical product dispensed under the Darren Wesley 'Ato' Hall Compassionate Act, which does not authorize any patient to grow their own plants.
Personal-use possession is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and a $6,000 fine; possession for other than personal use is a Class C felony carrying one to ten years and a fine up.
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