Maryland: Losing Companies Seek Answers on Medical Cannabis Licensing Decisions
The state's medical cannabis commission plans to reveal its rankings of prospective growers and processors this week, as complaints mount about the lack of diversity among the winning companies.
Dr. Paul Davies, chairman of the medical cannabis commission, said the selections were made without commissioners knowing the identity or background of the applicants. He said he's "very happy" that some of the winning companies are run by women or racial minorities.
Racial diversity was was not a factor in deciding which applicants were awarded licenses to grow and process the drug this month.
The commission does not have complete demographic information about the companies, which will be required to submit annual reports listing their minority owners and employees once up and running, said Vanessa Lyon, a spokeswoman for the commission.
The commission hired Towson University's Regional Economic Studies Institute to review and rank the applications, which were stripped of identifying...
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