A key figure on the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission defended the panel’s decisions on who received licenses to grow marijuana for medical use amid accusations that politically well-connected applicants were selected over better-qualified companies.
Cheverly Police Chief Harry “Buddy” Robshaw, who chairs the growers subcommittee of the commission, said the differences in the scores of the top applicants were very small. The top 15 applicants — which received preliminary growers licenses — were “about interchangeable,” he said.
“They really were very close up to [No.] 30 or 40,” Robshaw said.
The commission has not released the scores, which guided officials as they picked which companies would receive the potentially lucrative preliminary licenses to grow and process marijuana.
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