The state’s top court ruled Friday that the medical cannabis commission can issue final licenses to companies to grow the drug even as legal challenges to the program’s rollout continue.
The Court of Appeals held up a case from proceeding in Baltimore Circuit Court last week in which a company that failed to win a lucrative license to grow medical cannabis argues the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission ignored a state law that requires applicants’ racial diversity to be considered when awarding preliminary licenses.
Ownership of the company that filed the lawsuit, Alternative Medicine Maryland, is 84 percent African-American.
Maryland’s high court halted the case after companies with preliminary licenses to grow medical marijuana appealed Circuit Judge Barry Williams’ denial of their request to testify in the case. On Friday, the Court of Appeals scheduled oral arguments on that appeal for July 27.
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