Tag: Legislative Black Caucus
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The Lance Lucas Guilty Plea: Beyond the Slimy Details
After reading news coverage of Lance Lucas pleading guilty in federal court to bribing former Delegate Cheryl Glenn for among other things, medicinal cannabis licenses, you would be forgiven for reveling in the ridiculous details. Lucas meeting Glenn in his Porsche and handing her envelopes full of cash. Lucas boasting that bribing a legislator is…
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Lawsuit Against Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission Calls Its Racial Equity Attempts “a Sham”
A lawsuit has been filed against the Natalie M. LaPrade Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission on behalf of MediGrow LLC, a Prince George’s County-based cannabis company. The lawsuit, filed late last month, demands Maryland’s federal court address the MMCC’s application for medicinal cannabis growers and processors—specifically its equity questions—and says that the questions “are arbitrary, capricious,…
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Maryland Cannabis News in 2019 Revolved Around Racial Equity
This article is part of a three-part series that summarizes notable moments in cannabis from 2019 for Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. “This is really, really complicated,” State Senator and co-chair of The Maryland General Assembly’s Marijuana Legalization Workgroup Bill Ferguson said back in June. He was talking about unpacking the contingencies, exceptions, and all…