MCA
Maryland MCA-aware dispensary platform
Native compliance hooks for Maryland Cannabis Administration rules. METRC traceability, 12% adult-use cannabis sales tax + 6% medical sales-tax exemption math, MCA reconciliation cadence, and the medical-patient lane separation Maryland regulators expect.
Regulator
Maryland Cannabis Administration (MCA)
https://cannabis.maryland.gov ↗Statutes that bite
| Citation | Subject |
|---|---|
| Md. Code, Alc. Bev. + Cannabis Title 36 | Cannabis Reform Act (adult-use, 2023) |
| Md. Code, Health-Gen Title 13, Subtitle 33 | Medical Cannabis Program statute |
| COMAR 14.17 | Maryland Cannabis Administration regulations |
| Md. Code, Tax-Gen §11-104(p) | 9% adult-use cannabis sales tax statute |
Tax stack
Excise
12% adult-use cannabis sales-and-use tax (Md. Code Tax-Gen §11-104(k)) — applied at retail, effective July 1, 2025 (FY2026 and thereafter; was 9% in FY2024–2025). No separate excise; the 12% replaces (rather than stacks on) the 6% general sales tax for adult-use.
Sales / Use
Medical cannabis remains exempt from the 6% Maryland sales-and-use tax. Adult-use 12% is the only tax line — no additional state or local sales tax stacks on cannabis.
Local option
No local cannabis sales tax — Maryland is unusual in being state-only on the cannabis tax line. Auto-derives correctly per store address (no city/county add-on math required).
Compliance topics surfaced in-platform
- Age 21+ adult-use / 18+ medical patient ID verification with split lanes (medical exempt from 12% — split is real-money)
- METRC tag handoff + manifest reconciliation per COMAR 14.17
- Patient registry lookup hook (Maryland Medical Cannabis Patient ID)
- Daily inventory reconciliation export shaped for MCA record-keeping
- Social-equity license-class flagging (MCA prioritized social-equity applicants in the 2023 conversion)
What ships on day-1 for MD
- Adult-use + medical product lanes with separate tax stacks (12% vs exempt)
- METRC-shaped inventory + sale receipt mirror
- Daily reconciliation report (auto-runs at close)
- Social-equity vs standard license-class tagging
- Manager write-up assistant configurable to MD labor + MCA rule taxonomy
We serve here — honestly
We don’t operate stores in Maryland. We do follow MCA 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. CannAgent ships MD support with the same compliance discipline we apply to WSLCB — and we’ll say it directly when something’s off.
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?
- 12% adult-use cannabis sales-and-use tax (Md. Code Tax-Gen §11-104(k)) — applied at retail, effective July 1, 2025 (FY2026 and thereafter; was 9% in FY2024–2025). No separate excise; the 12% replaces (rather than stacks on) the 6% general sales tax for adult-use. Medical cannabis remains exempt from the 6% Maryland sales-and-use tax. Adult-use 12% is the only tax line — no additional state or local sales tax stacks on cannabis. No local cannabis sales tax — Maryland is unusual in being state-only on the cannabis tax line. Auto-derives correctly per store address (no city/county add-on math required).
- Is CannAgent available for Maryland dispensaries?
- Regulatory-summary coverage for Maryland is live; engineering capacity opens as operator demand lands. Join the waitlist on this page to signal interest for MD.
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See it on your MD data.
30-minute demo on a sandbox shaped like your store. End the call with a fixed-scope quote and a MD-aware cutover plan.