Judge temporarily halts Maryland medical marijuana industry quoting : Baltimore Sun

Circuit Judge Barry Williams said the Maryland medical Cannabis Commission is not permitted to grant any additional marijuana licenses for 10 days. Brian Brown, an attorney for Alternative Medicine Maryland, said the company doesn't wish to delay the industry. The case has been watched closely by medical marijuana firms, regulators and patients because it has potential to upend the entire industry before it gets off the ground. ForwardGro won final approval last week to grow the drug, more than four years after Maryland first legalized a medical marijuana program. Larry Hogan issued an executive order to conduct a disparity study that examines whether minorities face a disadvantage getting into the lucrative medical marijuana business.




"I obviously support a special session," Rodrigues told the Times/Herald earlier this month. DOH faces a quickly approaching deadline of July 3 to write the rules governing what could within a few years be a $1 billion medical marijuana industry. Florida health officials are taking the very earliest steps toward rolling out rules to let patients use medical marijuana after state lawmakers failed to resolve the issue during the final hours of their session earlier this month. "This is something that's best done by the Legislature rather than leaving it to the Department of Health." Rob Bradley, R-Fleming Island, and House Majority Leader Ray Rodrigues, R-Estero, who were responsible for negotiations over medicall marijuana during session.

Judge orders temporary halt to new Maryland medical marijuana licensing

Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams granted a temporary restraining order barring the Maryland medical Cannabis Commission from granting new li­censes to grow medical marijuana until a June 2 hearing. The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission last week cleared the first company, ForwardGro of Anne Arundel County, to start growing marijuana. [Third jilted cannabis company sues Maryland]The ruling comes as Maryland's long-delayed and controversial medical marijuana program was finally getting off the ground. View of medical marijuana plant propagated at a growing operation in Washington on September 7, 2016. Questions about racial diversity are just one of several controversies that have embroiled the medical marijuana program and threaten further delays.


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