Maryland has decided to give preliminary licenses to over twenty companies to cultivate and process cannabis in the state; this is a major improvement in the fight to make medical marijuana available patients in Maryland. Licenses were given out on Monday to companies throughout the state, from Washington County in Western Maryland to Worcester County on the Eastern Shore. The companies seek to cultivate cannabis crops and make them into pills, oils, extracts, as well as other products for patients suffering from one of several debilitating conditions.
Many of the winning applicants are connected to someone politically. Doctors Orders Maryland received a license to cultivate and process medical cannabis in Dorchester County while the company’s clinical director, Dan K. Morhaim, has been the chief proponent in General Assembly for medical marijuana. Morhaim recently stated that he could have been more efficient in announcing his connection to the company during the debate in Annapolis over medical cannabis. He did not answer when asked to be interviewed.
Another company, Holistic Industries of Prince George’s County, had a letter of recommendation written by Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller. Miller stated that he wrote letters for multiple applicants, but Holistic Industries was the only one to obtain a license.
“It was very general, nothing spectacular,” he said.
Here are Holistic Industries’ partners: Josh Genderson, who grows marijuana in the District of Columbia; former state health secretary Nelson Sabatini; Donald E. Wilson, a former dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine; and Henry P. “Phil” Miller Jr., a distant cousin of the Senate president who is a prominent Prince George’s County farmer. Gerry Evans, a top Annapolis lobbyist who represents Holistic Industries, stated that the company’s leaders know what they are doing. Holistic Industries is looking to open a cultivation and processing operations in a warehouse in central Prince George’s County.
“Anyone who thinks it’s a bunch of hippies in their backyard, that’s not what this is,” Evans added.
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