Medical marijuana sales started Friday in the state of Maryland following nearly five years of delays.
Maryland’s then-governor Martin O’Malley signed a bill legalizing medical marijuana in 2013, but bureaucratic hold -ups prevented dispensaries from actually selling the plant until Friday, December 1.
Regulators said they will authorize 102 dispensaries to operate within the state, and 10 of them were fully licensed to do as business as of Friday, according to the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission website.
At least 200 potential customers lined up outside Rockville’s first medical marijuana dispensary, Potomac Holistics, including some patients who traveled more than an hour to legally purchase the plant when the shop received its first cannabis shipment Friday afternoon, The Washington Post reported.
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23 comments:
When does MEDICAL Cocaine begin ?? MEDICAL Heroin ???
How Come > States Can and Do Violate Federal Law but WE
of course Cannot ??? I thought Fed is Over State Laws ??
Marajuana Still Against Federal Law ....Nobody Locked Up ???
i can smell the breath of the devil coming! its the end i tell you
States run states not government. How it should be. Why do you want people to be in pain? Do you want more pills? Why do you hate fellow man??
We have had medical heroin for decades you moron. It’s call opioid pain killers. Please throw yourself in front of a bus. Seriously
Helps people in pain, ptsd, Parkinson's,cancer, insomnia list goes on. And you think it's what??
Cocaine is used in hospitals and heroin is in the form of pain pills. Are you awake??
People have always had Pain and Marajuana has been Illegal
a Long time & people are in jail & prison for it too !!!
People's Pain is NO excuse ....They will have alot more
Pain when these Illegal drugs are LEGALIZED and this
country will be in a crisis like Never before ....FACT !!!
There are Legal Drugs for your Pain, Many of them !!!
Cocaine also was used in Coke A Cola. Of course, you peeps are way to young to ever had real Coke, so it's a non-issue for you!
All for Nothing else , but for TAX $$$$$$$ and states don't
care if it Kills You , it helps control the Population !!!
Beyond stupid!
Anything for TAX $$$$ , What is Next ????
Sell it in the casinos , since they too are for Tax $$$$ !!
Yeah maaaaaaaaaaaaan. It started Friday at 4:20!
WHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEWW!
9:55--
Referencing your last line only: Exactly. DRUGS, not a plant. The drug companies don't like competition! Why do you suppose they throw crazy amounts of money at our lawmakers? A lot of their DRUGS (stop placating yourselves just because they came from a pharmacy) would be obsolete if pot were legalized. Your "pain is no excuse" statement is dripping with empathy & sympathy ! All you naysayers have no idea what you are referencing, & apparently don't care what you put in your bodies. Good Lord, haven't you heard any of the high-speed voices trying to quickly get out all of the side effects of these DRUGS during the commercials?! It shouldn't be illegal to manage your pain the natural way. For those of you making these statements that call yourselves Christians, check out Genesis 1:12. I have given you all the seeds-bearing plants & herbs to use. What could that possibly mean?
9:55-You can't State what you think will happen in the future as fact. Especially when you are totally 100% wrong.
Cha-ching!
This a natural seed bearing plant that needs no chemicals or mans touch to grow. You’ve been brainwashed into believing marijuana is bad based on the political demonization for profit.
Let's get this straight-It's not medicine and they aren't patients. Period. This is all about money changing hands and nothing more. All the chemical compounds in marijuana have been available in liquid and pill form for decades by prescription. These prescriptions do help relieve nausea and loss of appetite issues, they just don't happen to get you stoned. In the end this is about getting stoned legally and people getting rich on it. My opinion is that it should be legalized since it seems that most people smoke the stupid crap anyway.
So we will now need a law keeping people from smoking pot within 100 feet of the doors of businesses, work etc. There has already been a problem here with someone smoking pot outside the doors, at work, for their "pain". And just like cigarettes, the employees want it stopped.
I personally don't want them near me either. It's no better than smoking anything else and is extremely annoying and unhealthy.
"A natural seed bearing plant that need no chemicals or mans touch to grow". Might be the dumbest thing I've read hear yet, and I've read some pretty stupid posts. The weed you are smoking today my friend has been genetically engineered for decades to get you so stoned you say things like that. The stuff that a random seed fell off of into a ditch back in the day wouldn't get you a buzz if you smoked a bushel of it. So don't go around acting like you are burning some randomly occurring plant.
It will take some time to get the brainwashed on board with this. They still believe the gov't despite any facts and studies to the contrary. You can't really totally blame them for their opposition. The gov't does a thorough job and has many decades of a jump start.
Do what you have to for your health and well being and pass those people by. There have been naysayers all throughout history, but we still managed to evolve, make advancements and progress just the same. It will be the same case in this instance.
Stoners got to get that high. They are unable to cope like normal people without it.
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