Maryland State Lawmakers to Consider Regulating and Taxing Marijuana Like Alcohol

by Gary Kopycinski on February 22, 2013

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ANNAPOLIS–(ENEWSPF)–February 22, 2013. Delegate Curt Anderson (D-Baltimore City) introduced a bill yesterday in the Maryland House of Delegates that would make marijuana legal for adults 21 and older and establish a system in which marijuana is regulated and taxed like alcohol.

In summary, HB 1453: