The Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Marijuana Commission was created by HB 1101 in 2013 to oversee the new version of Maryland’s medical marijuana program.
According to the most recent version of the draft regulations, released in November, 2014, the Commission will issue medical marijuana grower’s licenses, and a minimum of two medical marijuana dispensary licenses in any one Senatorial District with the capacity for more capping at one for every 20,000 people in one senatorial district.
Maryland’s medical marijuana grower and dispensary licenses will be issued based on merit. The relative merit of each applicant will be determined by a comprehensive point-based application system.
Applicants wishing to open a medical marijuana dispensary or cultivation facility in Maryland will need to include extensive documentation in their applications that details their financial support; business, security, inventory tracking, and quality control plans; and a host of other information describing the entire structure of their proposed businesses.
Earlier regulations called for up to $341,000 in startup capital to pay the application and licensing fees required to start medical marijuana dispensaries or grower facilities in Maryland.
Recreational marijuana is not yet legal in Maryland. There is a strong legislative push to have recreational use legalized.
What We Do:
William Askinazi, Esq., MBA has thirty plus years experience in government, politics and law and business. As a former Maryland official he is familiar with the process of legislation and economic development. Mr. Askinazi has a personal relationship with this mission to enact successful medicinal medical marijuana business. He has family members who have serious health problems that have been alleviated ONLY by medical marijuana. Safe and effective clinics need to be established in Maryland to help those needing cannabis and its derivitives. The retail dispensary will no doubt be governed by a maze of often overlapping federal, state and local and perhaps County, City or township regulations.
Mr. Askinazi and his team of consultants including esteemed child psychiatrist Dr. Alan Brody, offer a totality of medical, business and legal services to build a business plan, advise, fund, develop and establish your marijuana related business by reducing risk and ensuring legal compliance.
We are familiar with the present dynamic state of Maryland’s changing landscape with regard to the legalization of marijuana.
Click here to read the Maryland Medical Marijuana Commission Draft Regulations as adopted.
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Although marijuana possession and manufacture has been decriminalized in Maryland it is still a federal crime. The Law Firm of William Askinazi and its agents fully respect and adhere to the changing marijuana laws and any rendered advice is consistent with those state and federal laws and regulations.
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