Maryland
Medical, adult-use cannabis sales in Maryland top $1 billion in 1 year
COCKEYSVILLE, Md. — Decked in Fourth of July garb, Dr. Alexander Dix is the clinical director for KIP Dispensary off York Road in Cockeysville.
“So, this has been a very busy week for us. I think people preparing for the holiday, and realizing we were open on the holiday while a lot of dispensaries were not,” Dr. Dix said.
An operation of about 30 people split between the front and back of the house.
One year ago this July, they began selling adult-use cannabis.
“It’s been amazing. It’s been really great in a lot of different ways. It kind of put pressure on our team to step up and perform and it’s really wonderful to actually see that happen. It’s also been awesome to see so many smiling faces come through the door,” said Dr. Dix.
Green makes a lot of green, and now er have the numbers to prove it.
In the year since cannabis became legal for Marylanders 21 and up: $700 million in adult-use cannabis sales, medical, about $400 million.
Dix sees it continuing here.
“I do expect sales to continue in that upward trajectory. One of the things we did see change recently since a year ago is recreational users can now purchase concentrates – one gram containers. So, that’s one thing that we see change,” Dr. Dix added.
According to the state, Here’s how the tax revenue is broken down:
Half to the state’s general fund, 35% to the state’s community reinvestment and repair fund, benefiting low-income communities hurt by cannabis prohibition.
Focused on the plant’s medical properties – Dix is teaching pharmacy students.
“I have been working with Notre Dame of Maryland University, taking some of their 4th-year pharmacy students for the past year now. And it’s been really awesome to try to bring the cannabis education into the medical education and to really see the enthusiasm and interest in these up and coming professionals,” Dr. Dix said.
As the profit grows, Dix hopes interest in cannabis itself grows too.
Maryland schools made nation-leading strides in their recovery from students’ learning loss in the pandemic, data show.
Maryland schools made nation-leading strides in their recovery from students’ learning loss in the pandemic, according to new data.
They ranked third in the nation in their students’ reading recovery rates, and were fifth in math recovery, according to the 2025 Education Scorecard from Harvard and Stanford Universities and Dartmouth College.
D.C. led the U.S. in math and reading recovery.
The data was presented at the Maryland State Board of Education meeting Thursday.
Trish Brennan-Gac, executive director of literacy nonprofit Maryland READS, said the state board is correct to celebrate gains in reading, but proficiency is “nowhere near where we need to be.”
“It is not that we are No. 3-ranked in reading proficiency,” she told WTOP. “It’s a rate of change, and we are making a faster rate of change,” than most school districts nationally.
Brennan-Gac was at the meeting to ask that the state board consider ways to reduce the use of technology in classroom instruction and support a return to print and textbooks in schools.
“This is no longer a fringe concern. It is a growing movement, and it’s not about social media and phones,” she told the board.
Brennan-Gac said the board and Maryland schools superintendent Carey Wright can take a “visible meaningful leadership role.”
“You can develop transition guidance and funding pathways for districts that are ready to move now, and send a clear signal to the field that Maryland prioritizes developmentally appropriate instruction aligned to brain research that shows how books, not tech-based platforms, are effective in wiring kids’ brains for reading,” she said.
The Maryland State Department of Education has issued guidance to school districts on the use of cellphones in schools, and this year issued guidance on the use of artificial intelligence. In both instances, the state has made clear that it leaves implementation of policies to individual school districts.
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