Maryland is becoming the latest state to legally sell recreational marijuana, as businesses aim to tap into July Fourth festivities to kick off sales.
About 100 stores that already have been licensed to sell cannabis for medicinal purposes will be able to begin selling it recreationally Saturday, more than five years after the state started selling medical marijuana.
People also can grow marijuana at home, including up to two plants out of public view. Medical patients will be able to cultivate up to four plants at home. Nearly half of the states have approved selling marijuana recreationally, though some have yet to establish a marketplace for sales, including neighboring Virginia and Delaware, as well as Minnesota.
Recreational cannabis also isn’t legally sold in any of Maryland’s neighboring states, boosting business owners’ hopes that Maryland’s market will be lucrative. “There’s so much irony and conundrums and hypocrisy in cannabis policy in the U.S. that the closer to home it gets to the decision makers … the more chance there is for change,” said Ben Kovler, CEO and co-founder of Green Thumb Industries, whose Maryland RISE stores are located in Hagerstown, Joppa, Bethesda and Silver Spring.
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