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Maryland’s medical marijuana program could be delayed even further if the courts decide to intervene in a conflict between a cannabis company and the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission.
According to a report from the Baltimore Sun, Alternative Medicine Maryland petitioned a judge on Monday in hopes of securing an emergency injection over concerns that the commission is about to issue its final licensing selections without so much as trying to diversify the market.
The company wants a court to determine whether the commission broke any laws during the initial licensing phase because regulatory officials admitted last week that they may have went against the grain of the law by not giving any consideration to the race of the applicants.
“Time is of the essence,” the petition reads. “It is undisputed that the commission made no attempt to … actively seek racial and ethnic diversity throughout the licensing process.”
Out of the 15 companies awarded initial approval to cultivate medical marijuana for the state, African-Americans, which make up 30 percent of the state’s population, were behind none of them.
But state law requires the commission to “actively…
