Maryland

A Maryland special legislative session on medical marijuana has been denied. Since marijuana pre-approval licenses were announced in 2016, the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission has been accused of ignoring a law requiring it to consider racial diversity. A second lawsuit …

Published: Jul 31, 2017, 7:53 am • Updated: Jul 31, 2017, 7:53 am By Fenit Nirappil and Aaron Gregg, The Washington Post Several of the independent experts hired to review applications to open medical marijuana businesses in Maryland had ties …

Published: Jul 27, 2017, 5:20 pm • Updated: Jul 28, 2017, 1:59 pm By Brian Witte, The Associated Press Update ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland’s highest court has ruled that finalists to become licensed to grow medical marijuana in the state …

Republican Congressman Andy Harris is not a progressive. The four term legislator from Maryland has been one of the main forces behind Washington D.C.’s continued ban on retail pot shops, despite the District’s legal weed regulations, and once threatened to pull state …

The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission experienced a serious shake-up last week, as Governor Larry Hogan replaced the majority of the commission’s members after the trouble-plagued launch of the state’s medical cannabis program. The governor appointed ten new members to the …

This Wednesday, Maryland regulators approved the state’s first medical marijuana dispensary, The Wellness Institute of Maryland. The company has been authorized to open its doors immediately, and already plans to begin seeing patients. What’s missing from the picture is medical …

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Maryland’s highest court has blocked a Baltimore judge from holding a hearing to consider whether or not to put the state’s embattled medical marijuana program on hold. At the heart of the issue is a lawsuit alleging that the Maryland …

It’s taken four years for Maryland’s Medical Cannabis Commission to award final permits and licenses to actually get the MMJ program off the ground, and now, just weeks after the state’s first licensed grower was awarded his final paperwork, the program has been temporarily halted by a judge who is unconvinced the Commission did their due diligence when it comes to seeking racial diversity.

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