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Maryland medical cannabis panel allows firm to compete again as charges linger against 2 former executives

A year ago, Maryland medical marijuana regulators sought to deny a license to a company picked to grow the drug because there was “reasonable likelihood” it would not properly secure the medicine.

At the time, the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission had become concerned about the firm, MaryMed, after two of its former executives were charged in Minnesota with felonies for allegedly transporting the drug from a Minnesota facility to one in New York state.

On Tuesday the commission reinstated the company into Maryland’s licensing process after an administrative judge concluded there is “no reasonable likelihood” that MaryMed had participated in smuggling a half-million dollars worth of cannabis oil from Minnesota to New York in December 2015.

Maryland regulators also had been concerned that MaryMed did not notify them quickly enough that its ownership structure had changed, separating the firm from its sister companies in Minnesota and New York and from the former executives each charged with two felony counts — medical director Dr. Laura Bultman and security director Ronald Owens.

Maryland’s commission in September announced it intended to deny MaryMed’s applications to grow, process and sell the drug in Maryland after it had already won pre-approval. But MaryMed requested a hearing. [Read More @ Baltimore Sun]

 

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