IMPORTANT: As part of the registration process, registrants must submit the required nonrefundable academic research registration fee(s). The fee(s) must be paid in the form of a cashier's check or money order made payable to "Maryland Cannabis Administration" or "MCA", and must be mailed to: 

Maryland Cannabis Administration
Attn: Ugo Osoh
849 International Drive, 4th Floor
 Linthicum, MD 21090

ACADEMIC RESEARCH PROTOCOL: An academic research institution must submit a written plan for conducting a bona fide research project relating to the health effects, medical uses, properties, or composition of medical cannabis that includes the following information:

       (a) Name, address, date of birth, Social Security Number, institutional affiliation, and qualifications, including a curriculum vitae and list of publications, for the primary researcher;

       (b) Title, expected duration, primary objectives, statement of purpose, and description of the bona fide research project;

       (c) Type and amount of medical cannabis or medical cannabis products, and the dosage, route, and method of administration necessary to conduct the bona fide research project; and

       (d) Standard operating procedures for the safe and secure receipt, storage, packaging, labeling, handling, tracking, and dispensing of products containing medical cannabis and medical cannabis waste.

Up to (3) research agents may be registered with the Commission to purchase medical cannabis product for research purposes. (Please note that there is a $100 fee for each research agent)

Criminal History Record: A prospective academic research agent may not be registered if the prospective academic research agent has ever been convicted of a felony drug offense, except as provided in Health-General Article, §13-3310(d), Annotated Code of Maryland. The Commission, after review of the criminal history record information, may disqualify from registration any prospective academic research agent who has been convicted of or has pleaded nolo contendere to a crime involving moral turpitude, whether or not any appeal or other proceeding is pending to have the conviction or plea set aside.

Please upload the following documentation for each prospective academic research agent:

• Documentation of the submission of fingerprints to the Central Registry

• Copy of the request for criminal history record information to be forwarded to the Commission

NEW OR MODIFIED ACADEMIC RESEARCH PROTOCOL: An academic research institution must submit a written plan for conducting a bona fide research project relating to the health effects, medical uses, properties, or composition of medical cannabis that includes the following information:

       (a) Name, address, date of birth, Social Security Number, institutional affiliation, and qualifications, including a curriculum vitae and list of publications, for the primary researcher;

       (b) Title, expected duration, primary objectives, statement of purpose, and description of the bona fide research project;

       (c) Type and amount of medical cannabis or medical cannabis products, and the dosage, route, and method of administration necessary to conduct the bona fide research project; and

       (d) Standard operating procedures for the safe and secure receipt, storage, packaging, labeling, handling, tracking, and dispensing of products containing medical cannabis and medical cannabis waste.

Lost, destroyed, or stolen identification cards must be reported to the Commission within 72 hours. The academic research institution shall report the loss, destruction, or theft of an identification card to the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission at rebeccaw.jackson@maryland.gov (a copy of the notification to the Commission shall be evidence of registration until a new card is obtained from the Commission.)