Who regulates cannabis retail in Maryland?

Maryland Cannabis Administration (MCA) is the state cannabis regulator for Maryland. Official site: https://cannabis.maryland.gov.

What seed-to-sale track-and-trace system does Maryland use?

Maryland uses METRC (Franwell) for seed-to-sale traceability — the de-facto standard across most regulated states. CannAgent maps its inventory and transfer events to METRC's required fields.

Is CannAgent available for Maryland dispensaries?

Not yet — Maryland is not open to new stores. Target: Mid 2027. Join the waitlist. Targets, not promises. Each state's rules come first. Joining the MD list gets you one email when Maryland opens.

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Maryland is not open to new stores yet. Target: Mid 2027. Join the waitlist.

The MD rules on this page are researched and current. There is nothing to sign up for here yet. The waitlist gets you one email when Maryland opens.

Targets, not promises. Each state's rules come first.

MCA

Target: Mid 2027

Maryland MCA-aware dispensary platform

Native compliance hooks for Maryland Cannabis Administration rules. METRC traceability, 12% adult-use cannabis sales-and-use tax (Tax-Gen §11-104(k)) with medical and licensee-to-licensee transfers exempt under §11-245, MCA reconciliation cadence, and the medical-patient lane separation Maryland regulators expect.

Regulator

Maryland Cannabis Administration (MCA)

https://cannabis.maryland.gov ↗

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Your rules, handled

Maryland’s cannabis retail rules — what the MCA requires at the counter, how sales are reported to the state, and what the taxes are — are researched from the regulator’s own pages and coded into the register. You run the shop; the rules are handled at the sale.

At the register, as of September 2026: a single 12% cannabis sales-and-use tax on adult-use sales, with no local add-on; medical sales are exempt.

Coverage here — honestly

Maryland coverage is written against MCA rules: the bulletins, the medical-vs-adult-use 12-vs-exempt split, the social-equity license-class topology from the 2023 conversion, and the METRC-cadence reconciliation requirements. We keep it current as the MCA moves, and where something isn’t built for MD yet we say so before you sign.

Operator playbooks

Compliance ops playbook

State traceability reconciliation — the daily, weekly, monthly discipline

Buyer scorecard

Picking a cannabis POS: the 7-question scorecard

Migration playbook

POS migration: a 4-week playbook for cannabis dispensaries

Operations deep-dive

Cash discipline at a cannabis dispensary: variance, escalation, audit

Maryland cannabis retail — common questions

Who regulates cannabis retail in Maryland?: Maryland Cannabis Administration (MCA) is the state cannabis regulator for Maryland. Official site: https://cannabis.maryland.gov.
What seed-to-sale track-and-trace system does Maryland use?: Maryland uses METRC (Franwell) for seed-to-sale traceability — the de-facto standard across most regulated states. CannAgent maps its inventory and transfer events to METRC's required fields.
What cannabis taxes apply to retail in Maryland?: At the register, as of September 2026: a single 12% cannabis sales-and-use tax on adult-use sales, with no local add-on; medical sales are exempt.
Is CannAgent available for Maryland dispensaries?: Not yet — Maryland is not open to new stores. Target: Mid 2027. Join the waitlist. Targets, not promises. Each state's rules come first. Joining the MD list gets you one email when Maryland opens.

Target: Mid 2027. Join the waitlist.

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