Now that you mention it, I remember about the ex-mayor being part of it. On the list that's why they weren't approved.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/local/md-marijuana/

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Medmar LLC

Also applied to sell and process

Yehuda Baruch and Alon Sinai are executives at One World Cannabis, a publicly traded Israeli company that runs clinical trials studying the effect of cannabis on ailments as varied as migraines and PTSD. Robert DiPietro is the former mayor of Laurel, Md., who later registered as a lobbyist.

Steve Weinstein, chief executive
Who's involved

Steven Weinstein

Robert DiPietro

Ernest Roll

Alon Sinai

Yehuda Baruch

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