The Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission on Monday awarded licenses to 21 companies as cultivators, processors, transporters, dispensaries, and a testing lab.

The law forbids smoking medical cannabis or consuming it in food. It will be available as tablets, capsules, gelatins, oils, gels, creams, suppositories, transdermal patches, or inhalable oils or liquids, Alabama Reflector reported.

However, the cannabis gummies will only be allowed to be peach-flavored.

That sparked some discussion on Twitter Monday night as to why there was only flavor and why was it peach.

I asked Brian Lyman, editor of Alabama Reflector, if he knew the answer.

When medical marijuana was on its way to becoming legal, Lyman said, there was a debate on the Senate floor about trying to keep the gummies away from children.

“At one point the bill said it would have no taste, but (state Sen. Tim) Melson said that would cause people to gag. So the compromise was a single flavor,” Lyman said.

It was up to the AMCC to choose which flavor it would be.

“Maybe peach isn’t as attractive to people?” Lyman speculated.

The companies chosen have 14 days to pay their licensing fee. The AMCC plans to issue licenses on July 10.