The Natalie M. LaPrade Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission develops policies, procedures, and regulations to implement programs that ensure medical cannabis is available to qualifying patients in a safe and effective manner. The Commission oversees all licensing, registration, inspection, and testing measures pertaining to Maryland’s medical cannabis program and provides relevant program information to patients, physicians, growers, dispensaries, processors, testing laboratories and caregivers.
Natalie LaPrade
Natalie LaPrade was the mother of Baltimore City Delegate Cheryl Glenn. Delegate Glenn was one of the leading sponsors of Medical Marijuana legislation. Mrs. LaPrade was born in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1923. She moved to Baltimore and raised her family there. Mrs. LaPrade died of kidney cancer at the age of 87. She instilled in her children the importance of public service and helping others. Delegate Glenn believed that medical marijuana, if available, would have made her mother more comfortable and eased her pain in the last months and weeks of her life.
Executive Staff
Executive Director
William Tilburg
Deputy Director/ Laboratory Compliance
Lori Dodson
Operations (Finance, Information Technology, and Quality Assurance)
Fakiza Rahman, Director
Office of Communications
David Torres, Director
Operations Staff
Bureau of Enforcement and Compliance
Director, vacant
Quality Assurance
Manager, Reanna Richardson
Call Center
Lead, Melissa Morgan
Scientific Support
Director, Farahath Shenaz Dave
Finance
Director, Ugo Osoh
Information Technology
Director, Kayode Onaolapo
Office of Policy and Government Affairs
Associate Director, Taylor Kasky
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Regional Enforcement and Compliance Investigative Supervisors
MMCC HeadquartersCraig Williams, Enforcement and Compliance Investigator
Central Region
Todd Liddick, Senior Enforcement and Compliance Supervisor
Baltimore, Baltimore City, Carroll, Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, Saint Mary's County
Eastern Region
Vacant, Senior Enforcement and Compliance Supervisor
Anne Arundel, Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Harford, Kent, Queen Anne, Somerset, Talbot,
Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico and Worcester County
Western Region
Mark Rodeheaver, Senior Enforcement and Compliance Supervisor
Allegany, Frederick, Garrett, Howard, Montgomery and Washington County