Maryland: State Making Progress On Medical Marijuana Program

The law has been on the books now for about a year, but still patients can’t get medical marijuana. 

That’s because the state’s Medical Cannabis Commission is setting up the program. 

They are making progress.

There are proposed regulations for the growers of medical marijuana and the 94 dispensaries across the state that will get the drug to patients. 

Public comment on those regulations is taking place this month. 

Baltimore County Delegate Dan Morhaim, of Baltimore County’s 11th District co-sponsored the law. 

He’s an emergency room physician and we talked to him this week about the regulations.

Morhaim told Maryland's News This Week that the regulations are a positive step.

He notes Maryland's program will keep information on patients to determine how many patients are using marijuana, as well as the diseases being treated.

Morhaim expects  marijuana to be available to patients by the second half of next year. 

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