Md.'s budding weed industry faces a flatline amid loopholes, competition, and taxation

Maryland’s legal marijuana market, once expected to become a major driver of new jobs and tax revenue, is showing signs of economic stagnation just two years after the state legalized recreational cannabis use.

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49 Comments

  1. @dbarnes6028 on October 26, 2025 at 5:52 pm

    Bullshit weed

  2. @outlaw410 on October 26, 2025 at 5:53 pm

    Greed..the dispincery are packed all day lol..how much more money do they want

  3. @person86422 on October 26, 2025 at 5:56 pm

    So the little guys found a loophole but you want to protect the rich with billion dollar companies.

  4. @Zip962 on October 26, 2025 at 5:57 pm

    THE GOLD RUSH IS 8th’s SELLING UP TO $250.00 BECAUSE IT LOOKS GOOD !
    THE MAJORITY WILL CLOSE FOR TRYING TO SCREW CONSUMERS ‘ WATCH and SEE !

  5. @ianfarquharson3772 on October 26, 2025 at 5:57 pm

    THCa is a beautiful workaround. THC companies are just missing out on profits. You can buy a pound of top shelf THCa for crazy cheap. Just illegal when you decarb it😉

  6. @whoknowsidont.5147 on October 26, 2025 at 5:57 pm

    When I am GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND. 2026I WILL FIX THIS PROBLEM. Grow your own and be left alone. Buy sell trade. Farms families etc.

  7. @fredericbastiat5653 on October 26, 2025 at 5:58 pm

    If McWeed is your goal, they’ve succeeded. However if you really want the very best, this won’t get you there.

  8. @Mr.BoogieMan1 on October 26, 2025 at 5:59 pm

    When it’s cheaper on the street than in the shop what do you expect people to do? Have you seen the price of food? Gas? Ain’t got time or gas money to drive way out to a shop to give them $20 a damn gram when we can get it from Leroy for 80 bucks an ounce. And He Delivers! Completely logical

  9. @Vonbechtle on October 26, 2025 at 6:00 pm

    half the companies are not truthful with products.

  10. @Reds_Crabs on October 26, 2025 at 6:00 pm

    Sunmids is angry THCA is cheaper and no one wants the mids anymore

  11. @acuravision63 on October 26, 2025 at 6:01 pm

    He is rite

  12. @gregflock380 on October 26, 2025 at 6:04 pm

    people know to grow your own…..dont pay for weed…..

  13. @WitchwitchshesA on October 26, 2025 at 6:04 pm

    “Known as marijuana” 😂😂

  14. @rgrifferon on October 26, 2025 at 6:05 pm

    How many blacks have been incarcerated for simple possession of small amounts of marijuana?

  15. @gamedogsmoke on October 26, 2025 at 6:05 pm

    All dispensary weed is gmo trash

  16. @skywalker39100 on October 26, 2025 at 6:08 pm

    It’s Legal in MARYLAND for a Couple of Years!🎉😊

  17. @greenbeandubstep on October 26, 2025 at 6:08 pm

    Having white tables is the craziest shit I’ve seen all week

  18. @Russell-w2t on October 26, 2025 at 6:09 pm

    I hate pot

  19. @jchamberlain7435 on October 26, 2025 at 6:10 pm

    The idea that corporate weed is safer and black market weed deals are sketchy back ally things is ridiculous.

  20. @johnnygonzo1840 on October 26, 2025 at 6:11 pm

    The prices are insane in Maryland, that’s your issue

  21. @CarolGvazdinskas on October 26, 2025 at 6:12 pm

    Why are you in a business that addicts young people and causes so much heartache and anxiety

  22. @darylb5564 on October 26, 2025 at 6:13 pm

    I was in Baltimore the other day and I asked a guy why is everyone so unhappy. He said it was because they were there.

  23. @gooberswift888 on October 26, 2025 at 6:16 pm

    Over one hundred💰MILLION 💲to invest in cannabis seeds

  24. @ByronMacleod-r9p on October 26, 2025 at 6:16 pm

    TRY SOYA, they are Prop-up DEI farmers.

  25. @jchamberlain7435 on October 26, 2025 at 6:17 pm

    I know two people well who work for commercial growers. The each tell me pesticides and fungicides are used a lot but they always pass testing. Commercial weed is not safe.

  26. @alexrivera1732 on October 26, 2025 at 6:17 pm

    In California, the dispensaries are too expensive $70 bucks an 8th for a good Indica but if you kno someone it’s $20 the state is forcing people to go to the black market. Like everything else that government touches it turns to shit.

  27. @Believeincode on October 26, 2025 at 6:17 pm

    They need to ban the fake hemp & the kratom

  28. @rileyjordan9072 on October 26, 2025 at 6:17 pm

    people don’t wamt to end up like Hunter Biden. Weed is still Federally illegal and you have to trust that a medical card is not going to be compared to gun registration.

  29. @antmothirteen6540 on October 26, 2025 at 6:18 pm

    I grow my own

  30. @RARenfield on October 26, 2025 at 6:19 pm

    THC-A is a joke. The Coors lite of weed. MD’s "piece of the action" is the problem.

  31. @FlavorChefGenetics on October 26, 2025 at 6:19 pm

    This is COMMERCIAL junk that’s why it will crash and burn like the karma it’s owed

  32. @JasonChristopher44 on October 26, 2025 at 6:19 pm

    The lack of transparency regarding the subject’s statements is unclear, particularly given the consistent classification of lab reports as THCA hemp. Regardless, the product has consistently been identified as hemp. This shift represents an opportunity for broader participation, allowing individuals, including those from blue-collar backgrounds, to establish hemp-based businesses with significantly reduced initial investment requirements compared to traditional startups.

  33. @daveandrew5990 on October 26, 2025 at 6:24 pm

    Why they always let white people own shit that other people would never own. Bullshit

  34. @RandomGuy-k7m on October 26, 2025 at 6:26 pm

    See what happens when government put their dirty little hands on things? THEY RUIN IT.

  35. @guswilberding2251 on October 26, 2025 at 6:27 pm

    This is not what I’d want my farmer to look like 🤣

  36. @Weedeater58 on October 26, 2025 at 6:27 pm

    Your local farmer shouldn’t be classified as a street dealer because they can grow better weed that you and produce it way cheaper. Decriminalization is the only way, its just a fuckin plant!

  37. @CarolGvazdinskas on October 26, 2025 at 6:29 pm

    Addictive narcotics are wrong

  38. @zombieoozaru9135 on October 26, 2025 at 6:29 pm

    Sun meds actually sells thier stuff 15-40$ some ppl like paying more..strane or rhythm are really the goto for high quality concentrate/vapes for good price all the bud is overpriced from every company bc when u got ppl on street with same exact bud from same exact people for way cheaper..i mean this guy acts like his company does not serve to vendors without licenses pretends not to notice..its pretty sad when alot of weed has to expire no body is throwing that away…

  39. @Uke_SkyRocker on October 26, 2025 at 6:30 pm

    His plants look terrible.
    His lights are entirely too far above the canopy.
    What a waste of money and resources. 🙄

  40. @metrichotrods1763 on October 26, 2025 at 6:37 pm

    The answer to this dumpster fire is listed in the requirements for being a dispensary owner and operator. Look them up.

  41. @100LikeWilt on October 26, 2025 at 6:40 pm

    SunMed has always been trash.

  42. @rgrifferon on October 26, 2025 at 6:44 pm

    I wouldn’t purchase it, legally or illegally.

  43. @diplomatbell on October 26, 2025 at 6:45 pm

    Smokin them PGR’s so they can rake in profit over Patient needs

  44. @ryangalinat952 on October 26, 2025 at 6:46 pm

    Its not the same product at all not even close to the real thing

  45. @jme6293 on October 26, 2025 at 6:46 pm

    Justify and rationalize away…..No sympathy for your financial woes. Another ‘thing’ but in pretty packages to dope up the masses. A dope dealer in a beautifully designed store as opposed to on a backstreet. ‘ If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck…then it’s a duck.’

  46. @JohnnyCatFitz on October 26, 2025 at 6:47 pm

    There will always be bootleggers pal — stop crying over milk that was never in your cup

  47. @thesouthernmarylandexperie3253 on October 26, 2025 at 6:48 pm

    Maryland deserves a fair and free hemp and cannabis market. Responsible businesses and families shouldn’t be punished for the actions of a few smoke shops. Let’s create smart regulation — not blanket bans that hurt small businesses and communities doing things the right way.

  48. @clintonmatthews1507 on October 26, 2025 at 6:50 pm

    Make it sound so nice how he inherited drug dealing

  49. @KingTudaeHargrove-f9u on October 26, 2025 at 6:50 pm

    Government and YTEE Drug growers and dealers of all drugs. And Yawl is spraying shit on weed sold to consumer. YAWL full of bullshit 💯💯💯🖕🖕

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