Nobody is invincible, not even Nicholas Patrick. Years ago, the Anne Arundel County resident felt discomfort below the belt and decided to get it checked out. Patrick thought it would be a quick fix, nothing that an antibiotic couldn't solve. He was wrong. Read More via Patch
Maryland’s budding hemp industry is growing despite concerns from some Baltimore County residents about living near a crop that was outlawed for several decades. Hemp is a strain of cannabis that looks and smells much like the plant that’s smoked recreationally and medicinally. But hemp contains only a very small amount of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, [...]
After more than a year of delays due to logistical errors and allegations of impropriety, the state has picked 11 companies to expand and diversify Maryland’s medical cannabis industry. The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission on Thursday selected three companies to grow medical cannabis and eight companies to process the plant into products to be sold [...]
Pennsylvania-based Ethos Cannabis is planting its flag in the Maryland market with the acquisition of three local dispensaries. Ethos recently gained clearance from regulators at the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission to acquire three licensed dispensary businesses that have been operating under the brand name "Mission" in Maryland. The acquired sites include Mission's stores in Rockville, [...]
Culta, a Maryland producer of craft cannabis and extracts, announced Monday the release of a new strain of medical marijuana and expanded its inventory to other dispensaries statewide. Culta is the exclusive cultivation, manufacturing, and distribution partner in Maryland for Cookies, the San Francisco-based cannabis company. The two brands habve partnered to release a new strain, Sticky Buns, [...]
Annual retail sales in Maryland's cannabis industry reached $366 million at the end of July, surpassing total sales for all of 2019 with more than a third of the year still to go. July also marked the first month in the state industry's short history that total retail sales surpassed $40 million in a single [...]
The State of Maryland will soon usher in regulatory changes designed to boost security at marijuana businesses while reducing implementation headaches and costs. The sweeping changes to cannabis security arrive on September 1 as the state clarifies off-site video archiving requirements. The revised regulations no longer require licensees to store video surveillance recordings at both [...]
Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) (“Curaleaf” or the “Company”), a leading vertically integrated cannabis operator in the U.S., today reported its financial and operating results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2020. All financial information is provided in U.S. dollars unless otherwise indicated. Read more via New Cannabis Ventures
Effective October 1, 2020, the Maryland Secretary of State will include cannabis products and cannabis services among those entitled to Maryland trademark and service mark registration. The Maryland General Assembly passed legislation this year to create this expansion. Federal trademark protection under the Lanham Act is still prohibited for cannabis, so what does this mean for Maryland [...]
In December 2019, the industry’s mood was cautiously optimistic. Although cannabis stocks had collapsed and capital dried up, there was reason for optimism: A dozen states had legalization bills on the docket, and the SAFE Banking Act seemed about to pass in Congress. A few months later, the coronavirus pandemic put almost all legislative efforts on hold, [...]
