2-26-2024 4:23am

100 DISPENSARIES

MD Nears 100 Dispensaries: Weed Industry Budding After Legalization

Maryland will soon license its 100th dispensary. Here's how the weed industry is budding, 8 months after recreational use was legalized.

MARYLAND — The state of Maryland is preparing to license its next round of dispensaries. This signals further growth for an industry that's boomed since recreational marijuana was legalized on July 1, 2023.

The state has 96 dispensaries, which are listed at the bottom of this story.

Maryland officials are in the process of awarding another 83 dispensary licenses. Seventy-five will be standard dispensaries, and eight will be micro, delivery-only dispensaries. The state will also award licenses for 40 growers (16 standard and 24 micro) and 56 processors (32 standard and 24 micro).

Maryland received 1,708 applications for these 179 available licenses by the December 2023 deadline. A lottery will now distribute the licenses.

This announcement is another step forward in fulfilling Maryland’s commitment to building an equitable and inclusive cannabis industry," Maryland Cannabis Administration Acting Director Will Tilburg said in a September 2023 press release announcing the application window. "This application round will more than double the number of cannabis businesses in the State, and each award will be to a verified social equity applicant."

Recreational marijuana started with a bang and has continued to scale ever since.

Gold Leaf, an Annapolis dispensary, said business is booming.

"We are seeing a large influx of new adult-use customers," Michael Tese, Gold Leaf's senior vice president of retail, told Patch in a July 2023 interview. "As word spreads, we're going to continue to see more and more people realizing that it's legal and coming to the store. … Business has more than doubled."

Customers bought nearly $3.6 million worth of recreational marijuana the first day it was legalized for residents 21 and up.

Maryland dispensaries then sold nearly $332 million of recreational marijuana in the first six months. Recreational cannabis revenue has increased every month since legalization.

Recreational pot is taxed at 9 percent, the same rate as alcohol. The first day of recreational sales generated nearly $30 million in tax revenue for the state.

Roughly 887,000 recreational weed transactions were reported in December 2023, the most recent month with data. That's 123,000 more sales than the first month of legalization.

Panacea Wellness, another Annapolis dispensary, said "the switch hasn’t been that crazy."

Panacea General Manager Chris Harvey has noticed the "excitement on the face of the first-time rec patients." These customers usually have bought marijuana elsewhere, but they're just eager to have a legal market in their home state.

"The excitement for them is just the fact that it's here in Maryland, not necessarily that recreational cannabis is now legal," Harvey told Patch in our July 2023 interview. "Whether it's med or rec, there's a lot of states where you can access cannabis."

This surge of recreational customers has come at the cost of medical sales.

Medical cannabis transactions have fallen by 16 percent since legal recreational use began.

There were 465,000 medical transactions in July 2023. That fell by 74,000 to 391,000 medical transactions in December 2023.

Total medical cannabis revenue is also down by $1.4 million since July 2023. There were still $35 million in medical sales in December 2023.

Here are all the dispensaries in Maryland. To see them on a map, click here.

The Apothecarium Dispensary (100 Beall Street Cumberland Maryland 21502)
Grow West (1096 West Industrial Blvd. Cumberland Maryland 21502)
Sweetspot Dispensary (18070 Georgia Avenue Olney Maryland 20832)
Sweet Buds Dispensary (5312 New Design Rd Frederick Maryland 21703)
Health For Life Bethesda (4909 Fairmont Avenue Bethesda Maryland 20814)
Columbia Care Md, Llc (4609 Willow Ln Chevy Chase Maryland 20815)
Kannavis (8709 Fingerboard Road Frederick Maryland 21704)
Curaleaf Columbia, Llc (7090 Deepage Drive Columbia Maryland 21045)
Verilife (11717 Old National Pike New Market Maryland 21774)
Natures Medicines (10169 Baltimore National Pike Ellicott City Maryland 21042)
Revolution Releaf (9994 Washington Blvd. N Laurel Maryland 20723)
Herbafi (8413 Ramsey Avenue Silver Spring Maryland 20910)
Mission Rockville (4007 Norbeck Rd Rockville Maryland 20853)
Curaleaf Dispensary Of Frederick (5420 Urbana Pike Frederick Maryland 21704)
Rise Hagerstown (1571 Wesel Blvd Hagerstown Maryland 21740)
Bloom Medicinals (11530 Middlebrook Road Germantown Maryland 20876)
Green Goods (1080 West Patrick Street Frederick Maryland 21703)
Peake Releaf (2001 Chapman Ave. Rockville Maryland 20852)
Story Cannabis Co. (12355 Georgia Ave. Silver Spring Maryland 20906)
Gleaf Rockville (808 Hungerford Dr Rockville Maryland 20850)
Trilogy Wellness Of Maryland, Llc (9291 Baltimore National Pike Ellicott City Maryland 21042)
Trulieve (12200 Rockville Pike Rockville Maryland 20852)
Gleaf Wellness (4606 Wedgewood Blvd. Frederick Maryland 21703)
Gold Leaf (2029 West Street Annapolis Maryland 21401)
The Apothecarium Dispensary Of Salisbury (Formerly Peninsula Alternative Health) (1003 Mt. Hermon Rd. Salisbury Maryland 21804)
Nature'S Medicines (1657 Crofton Blvd Crofton Maryland 21114)
Mana Supply Company (3005 Solomons Island Road Edgewater Maryland 21037)
Pharmkent, Llc (330 E. Pulaski Highway Elkton Maryland 21921)
Four Green Fields (3518 Conowingo Road Street Maryland 21154)
Green Point Wellness Linthicum (823 A Elkridge Landing Road Linthicum Maryland 21090)
Zen Leaf Pasadena (16 Magothy Beach Rd Pasadena Maryland 21122)
Rise Joppa (702 Pulaski Hwy Joppa Maryland 21085)
Enlightened Dispensary (3111 Emmorton Road Abingdon Maryland 21009)
Sunburst Pharm (603 Meteor Avenue Cambridge Maryland 21613)
Liberty Cannabis (6144 Oxon Hill Rd. Oxon Hill Maryland 20745)
Storehouse Cannabis Dispensary Baltimore (5730 Falls Road Baltimore Maryland 21209)
Waave Cannabis (7327 Hanover Pkwy Greenbelt Maryland 20770)
Blair Wellness Center, Llc (5806 York Road Baltimore Maryland 21212)
Ascend Dispensary - Laurel (14703 Baltimore Avenue Laurel Maryland 20707)
Blue Ridge Wellness, Llc (9413 Harford Road Parkville Maryland 21234)
Releaf Shop (1114 Cathedral Street Baltimore Maryland 21201)
Story Cannabis Co. (2486 Chillum Road Hyattsville Maryland 20782)
Southern Maryland Relief (28105 Three Notch Road Mechanicsville Maryland 20659)
Kip Dispensary (9 Cranbrook Rd. Cockeysville Maryland 21030)
Nirvana Center (5225 Baltimore National Pike Baltimore Maryland 21229)
Chesacanna, Inc (10534 York Road Cockeysville Maryland 21030)
Ethos - Baltimore (3907 Falls Road Baltimore Maryland 21211)
Culta, Llc (215 Key Highway Baltimore Maryland 21230)
Curaleaf Md, Llc (11722 Reisterstown Road Reisterstown Maryland 21136)
Far & Dotter (2060-A York Road Timonium Maryland 21093)
Greenlabs (1522 Eastern Ave Baltimore Maryland 21231)
Health For Life Baltimore (6807 Rolling Mill Rd. Baltimore Maryland 21224)
Greenwave Maryland (70 Holiday Drive Solomons Maryland 20688)
Starbuds Baltimore (5975 Belair Road Baltimore Maryland 21206)
Haven Cannabis Dispensary (7501 Clymer Drive Brandywine Maryland 20613)
Jova Wellness Center (5846 Allentown Way Camp Springs Maryland 20748)
Health For Life White Marsh (4741 Ridge Rd. Nottingham Maryland 21236)
Liberty Cannabis (3317 Keswick Road Baltimore Maryland 21211)
Cookies Baltimore (35 E. Cross Street Baltimore Maryland 21230)
Summit Wellness Cannabis Dispensary (Formerly Ethos) (6328 Baltimore National Pike Catonsville Maryland 21228)
The Dispensary (330 140 Village Rd Westminster Maryland 21157)
Green Point Wellness (116 Washington Blvd S Laurel Maryland 20707)
The Living Room (1636 Reisterstown Road Baltimore County Maryland 21208)
Trulieve (1526 York Road Lutherville Maryland 21093)
Green Goods Baltimore (717 North Point Boulevard Baltimore Maryland 21224)
Dr Dots Dispensary (805 N Howard St Baltimore Maryland 21201)
Wright Wellness Group, Llc (4201 Northview Drive Bowie Maryland 20716)
Potomac Holistics (14808 Physicians Lane Suite 211 Rockville Maryland 20850)
Rise Dispensary Bethesda (10401 Old Georgetown Road Suite 210 Bethesda Maryland 20814)
Greenhouse Wellness (4801 Dorsey Hall Drive Suite 110 Ellicott City Maryland 21042)
Zen Leaf Elkridge (6000 Marshalee Drive (Eff 7/31/2022) Elkridge Maryland 21075)
Herbiculture (4009 Sandy Spring Rd, Unit 101 Burtonsville Maryland 20866)
Liberty Cannabis (12001 Nebel Street Rockville Maryland 20852)
Remedy Columbia (8865 Stanford Blvd. Unit 131 Columbia Maryland 21045)
Curaleaf Gaithersburg (10011 Stedwick Road Gaithersburg Maryland 20886)
Zenleaf Germantown (13007 Wisteria Dr Unit 28-29 Germantown Maryland 20874)
Verilife Cannabis Dispensary Rockville (5544 Nicholson Lane Rockville Maryland 20852)
Ascend - Aberdeen (226 South Philadelphia Ave. Aberdeen Maryland 21001)
Ash + Ember (202 Coursevall Drive Suite 108 Centreville Maryland 21617)
Panacea Wellness (2061 Generals Highway Annapolis Maryland 21401)
Ritual Dispensary (7609 Energy Pkwy Suite 901 Curtis Bay Maryland 21226)
Greenlight Therapeutics (782 State Route 3 N Gambrills Maryland 21054)
Nature'S Care & Wellness (4925 Pulaski Highway Suite A Perryville Maryland 21903)
Hi Tide Dispensary (12600 Marjan Lane Unit 100 Ocean City Maryland 21842)
Positive Energy Dispensary (9939 Jerry Mack Road Suite 500 Ocean City Maryland 21842)
Zen Leaf Towson (101 East Chesapeake Ave #102 Towson Maryland 21286)
Remedy 695 (7165C Security Blvd. Windsor Mill Maryland 21244)
Story Of Maryland - Waldorf Dispensary (2290 Old Washington Road Suite 12383 Waldorf Maryland 20601)
Mary & Main (8801 Hampton Mall Drive N. Capitol Heights Maryland 20743)
Chesapeake Apothecary, Llc (4781 Crain Highway Suite A White Plains Maryland 20695)
Mana Supply Co. Middle River (100 Carroll Island Rd. Middleriver Maryland 21220)
Dispensary Works (10766 Demarr Rd., Suite 3A White Plains Maryland 20695)
Verilife (700 Corporate Center Ct Suite K Westminster Maryland 21157)
Rise Silver Spring (7900 Fenton Street Silver Springs Maryland 20910)
Chesapeake Apothecary North (9135 Piscataway Road Suite 100 Clinton Maryland 20735)
Trulieve (3531 Washington Blvd. Suite 112 Halethorpe Maryland 21227