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Maryland Cannabis Administration: $1.17 billion in 2025 sales; licensing pipeline constrained by capital and zoning
Summary
MCA Director Tabitha Robinson told the Senate Finance Committee that Maryland's legal cannabis market generated $1.17 billion in 2025, with 187 operating businesses and 192 conditional licenses still moving through approvals. She cited financing, zoning and federal illegality as persistent barriers and said MCA extended an 18‑month conditional license timeline to 24 months by regulation pending legislative action.
The Maryland Cannabis Administration on Wednesday told senators that the state's legal cannabis industry generated $1,170,000,000 in total sales in 2025 and that regulators remain focused on growing licensed operations while maintaining product safety and market stability.
"In 2025, the industry generated $1,170,000,000 in sales revenue," Tabitha Robinson, director of the Maryland Cannabis Administration, told the Senate Finance Committee. She said Maryland currently had 187 operating cannabis businesses — 23 growers, 27 processors and 109 dispensaries — and that the market still relies primarily on flower rather than the value‑added products seen in more mature markets.
Robinson said the agency issued guidance, conducted inspections and stood up a nation‑first state reference lab (accredited in 2025) to double‑check potency and purity testing from…
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