Cookies Baltimore will be reopen for business in time for the first day of adult-use marijuana sales in Maryland on July 1.
However, the store must pay an $81,500 fine and will be on a one-year probation for breaking state law during its grand opening in May, regulators ruled.
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Cookies Baltimore is owned by Noxx Cannabis, which is licensing the popular California-based marijuana brand in its home state of Michigan as well as Maryland.
The Baltimore outlet opened for business in Maryland’s medical marijuana market under its new branding May 27.
The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission suspended the store’s license June 2 after discovering several violations during on-site inspections and via social media.
The violations included using a celebrity image to market cannabis, inoperable video-surveillance equipment, a missing security door and the use of a Cookies-branded “large plastic smoke inhalation device” that blasted marijuana smoke
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