Tag: Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission
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Maryland Cannabis Commission Touts Faster Patient Registrations And Shorter Call Waits
At a virtual meeting of the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission (MMCC) on Thursday, regulators said they’ve significantly reduced turnaround times to register new patients for the state’s medical weed program. In his report to the commission, Executive Director Will Tilburg said that since early May, the average processing time for new patient applications has been…
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Vacancy Opens On Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission As Member Resigns To Run For Office
Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission member Jeff Woolford resigned from the regulatory body on Feb. 23, the commission announced on Thursday, after Maryland gubernatorial candidate Kelly Schulz tapped Woolford this week to campaign as her running mate. Woolford has served in a number of capacities in the administration of Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, most recently as…
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Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission Meeting Deals With COVID-19, Ignores Cheryl Glenn Scandal Again
This month’s Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission (MMCC) meeting, held on March 25 over teleconference due to COVID-19, was the second meeting this year that did not address what most of the Maryland cannabis industry is discussing: The ongoing Cheryl Glenn scandal. Since last month’s February 20 meeting, businessman Lance Lucas pleaded guilty to bribing former…
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Maryland Dispensaries An ‘Essential Business’; Cannabis Commission Provides Policy Changes Amid Coronavirus
On Monday, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan ordered all “nonessential” businesses closed in response to the Coronavirus. Consulting federal guidelines, Hogan provided a list of businesses determined “essential” that can remain open. The Interpretive Guidance document for the state of Maryland released by Hogan—which you can read here—differs in at least one way from the federal…
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Coronavirus Reveals Cannabis Law Contradictions in DMV
The Coronavirus has made it clear that critiques directed towards many of the systems in the United States are no longer up for debate. Suddenly, even some Republicans are suggesting socialism-tinged policies to address the pandemic and the need to get people out of jail, to put a pause on evictions, and hand over thousands…
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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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The Outlaw Report Podcast: The State of Maryland’s Medicinal Cannabis Industry
Join Prohibited podcast founder, Scott Cecil, as he teams up with the Outlaw Report to bring you a monthly DMV based discussion and recap of current cannabis events, news, and noteworthy conversations happening in the industry. On this first episode, Cecil talk to The Outlaw Report’s Brandon Soderberg about the state of medicinal cannabis in…
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Lance Lucas Pleads Guilty to Medicinal Cannabis License Bribes
On Monday, Lance Lucas, the former president of Maryland’s Black Chamber of Commerce and the head of a nonprofit promoting digital literacy, pleaded guilty to paying disgraced Delegate Cheryl Glenn $42,500 in bribes relating to, among other things, medicinal cannabis licenses. This comes after Glenn, who was the former chair of the Black Legislative Caucus…
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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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In Annapolis, a Debate About Medicinal Cannabis Licenses and the Free Market
According to Chairman of the African-American Cannabis Association Joe Gaskins, the white and moneyed performed a “heist” over the past few years, swiping all of Maryland’s medicinal cannabis licenses for themselves and leaving equally qualified black growers and processors with nothing. “In the beginning, it seemed to be a great idea,” Gaskins said last week…
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Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission Meeting Awards Licenses, Skips Over Scandal
This year’s first full meeting of the Natalie M. LaPrade Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission (MMCC) was all about housekeeping, really—updates, a few words on the legislative session, operational deadlines for a few dispensaries extended, and the approval of a handful of dispensaries. MMCC Chairman Brian B. Lopez compared the commission’s recent efforts to “drinking from…