With the number of federal employees and contractors in Maryland, it'll be interesting to see what happens when people start failing their urinalysis.
Posted on 02/05/2018 3:17:09 AM PST by markomalley
Eight more dispensaries have received their final licenses to operate in Maryland since the start of the year.
With those additions, 30 dispensaries, 12 processors and 14 growers are operating in the state's medical cannabis industry. The industry is still in its infancy and growing. The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission pre-approved 15 cannabis growing businesses, 15 processors, 102 dispensaries and a handful of testing laboratories in 2016. Over a year later, several of these companies are still working toward their final licenses.
The commission oversees the regulation of the industry and is in charge of granting business and patient licenses, evaluating and inspecting cannabis businesses and continuing to manage related laws throughout the state. Joy A. Strand, executive director of the Medical Cannabis Commission, said regulators are continuing to work through the licensing process with the remaining dispensary companies over the coming months. At this point, there is no expected deadline for when all viable businesses will be cleared.
Strand has said she knows patients have been frustrated with the slow upstart of things, but said it is important for people to be patient. It expected to take several more months for Maryland's cannabis supply to catch up with patient demand, and for dispensaries to be able to serve all of the patients in their jurisdictions.
In the meantime, the Baltimore Business Journal has built this interactive tool to help Marylanders get a better look at where the industry will have a presence and what we know so far about each of the businesses starting up.
With the number of federal employees and contractors in Maryland, it'll be interesting to see what happens when people start failing their urinalysis.
It’s simple. They’ll whine.
After years of locking them up, the government has come to love dopers - “Think of all the Tax Dollar$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$”.
(You have no idea.)
Dope-smokers don’t tend to fight back, or think clearly.
Legalized marijuana is all about a compliant populace.
“With the number of federal employees and contractors in Maryland, it’ll be interesting to see what happens when people start failing their urinalysis.”
In today’s world, where the legislature has abdicated its law making role to the courts and agency regulators, laws can easily be tossed out or rewritten by judges. Likewise administrators in the bureaucracy can interpret the millions of laws and regulations to suit their agenda. Laws are for the rabble, not the overseers.
“A gramme is better than a damn.”
If you wish to buy firearms ever again(in an FFL store). Don’t sign up for it. The Feds currently don’t care what the states allow.
Interesting. It looks like they are setting up along the opiate routes. They are competing with Mexican heroin and synthetic fentanyls and carfentanils.
Encouraging drug dependency is a tactic to encourage more dependency on government and, therefore, more power for leftist would-be dictators.
You’re right; they’ll let people voluntarily subdue themselves...
Got to replace cigarette tax somehow.
“If you wish to buy firearms ever again(in an FFL store). Don’t sign up for it. The Feds currently don’t care what the states allow.”
Maryland and the states know this.
Since it's still unlawful on the Federal level, maybe the IRS could capture the state tax money -- and pay for The Wall!
Drivers were awful when I worked in DC 35 years ago. More dope won't make them better drivers.
For your interest.
After years of locking them up, the government has come to love dopers - “Think of all the Tax Dollar$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$”.
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The government is against all the usual vices, gambling, drug, prostitution; unless they’re running them.
True enough.
Sheer idiocy, but that’s to be expected from the Annapolis Insane Asylum.
None in my county.
It sure didn’t take long for the states to become addicted to Lottery Revenue...
BINGO
That’s racist!
It’s amazing to me that stoners think they will end up being happy with the results of legal (medical and otherwise) marijuana. One can’t help but think that signing up for either one of the will end up with the person losing a whole lot of their freedoms.
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