Medical cannabis companies still struggling to open stores in Maryland will have their preliminary approvals to operate revoked by state regulators if they do not finalize their licenses and open their doors by Sept. 30.
The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission issued a bulletin Thursday alerting companies of the deadline and advising them to complete their final inspections by Aug. 15 to have enough time to complete the steps required to sell medicinal marijuana to consumers out of retail stores.
“We want to encourage everyone to get open as soon as possible,” Joy Strand, the commission’s executive director, said Friday.
Nearly all of the 76 licensed cannabis dispensaries in Maryland have opened their doors — including Mission, which held an open house Thursday night at the Falls Road dispensary it will soon open to the public in Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood.
That leaves 26 other companies in the pre-approval stage, Strand said. The commission last month decided that those dispensaries have had enough time to finalize their operations and start selling products.
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