Marijuana Business Magazine November December 2018

Maine The state Department of Administrative and Financial Services issued a request for proposals for a cannabis consultant to draft regulations to license and regulate rec MJ businesses. Maine’s voters legalized adult-use marijuana in 2016. After fits and starts owing to politi- cal squabbles, Maine is moving forward to launch its recreational marijuana market, likely by 2019 or 2020. The state set an April 30, 2019, deadline for a consultant to develop rules required to begin adult-use cannabis sales. The consultant also will draw up MMJ rules to permit new dispensaries and allow caregivers to open retail outlets, based on a law the Legislature passed earlier this year. Maryland Persistent outages and slowdowns involving Metrc, Maryland’s seed-to-sale tracking software, forced state medical marijuana regulators to override regulations governing patient purchases five times in mid- September. To limit the impact on retailers and patients, the state cannabis commission permitted retailers to bypass the rules when Metrc-related “technical difficulties” prevented dispensaries from verifying how much medicine each customer could purchase. On days the special exception is in effect, the dispensary is allowed to sell to a patient up to 12 grams of dried flower or concentrated products, such as oils, with up to 2,500 milligrams of THC. / LEON ® / LED / NEON / NON-ILLUMINATED / CHALKBOARDS / PRODUCT DISPLAYS / TACKERS / WWW.ZEON.COM / 303-666-9400 STAND OUT. ( AND SELL MORE! ) COME SEE US AT BOOTH #2748! November/December 2018 • Marijuana Business Magazine • 25