A medical marijuana dispensary co-owned by an adjunct professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has opened in Mount Vernon.

The ReLeaf Medical Cannabis Dispensary, in the 1100 block of Cathedral St., is among 50 dispensaries licensed in the state, close to half of the 102 allowed by the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission.

Most of the licensees have opened in recent months after long delays with getting the industry off the ground in Maryland. The General Assembly created the program in 2012.

A half dozen of those licensed are in Baltimore City. The majority of the dispensaries are in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, leaving gaps in availability in the state’s farther flung counties.

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WASHINGTON, Pa. — The first marijuana dispensary in southwestern Pennsylvania is opening its door this week.

Until Ohio and West Virginia open locations this and next year, the dispensary opening in Washington County is the only one near the Ohio Valley.

To use medical cannabis in Pennsylvania, you have to be a Pennsylvania resident. So, if you live along the Route 22 corridor, this is the place to get it in Washington County.

It's on Chestnut Street in Washington, Pa.: The Healing Center Medical Marijuana Dispensary and Care Clinic.

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A Colorado marijuana dispensary owner said he has big plans for the state, involving franchising.

Christian Hageseth, owner of Denver's two Green Man Cannabis dispensaries, said in a statement that he's signed a deal with a group of Colorado investors who plan to open five ONE Cannabis locations in Denver, with the first two opening within the next six months.

Read our feature on Hageseth and ONE Cannabis. 

Hageseth then said he expects to have 50 ONE Cannabis Colorado franchise locations within the next 30 months.

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Alison Ettel, CEO of TreatWell Health, was thrust into the national limelight over the weekend after she was caught on video while allegedly calling the police on an 8-year-old black girl who was selling water on a sidewalk in San Francisco. According to news reports, Ettel, who is white, was upset that the girl did not have a permit to sell water.

"She asked me where's my permit? And I didn't know what a permit was," the girl told CBS News.

The viral video then produced the hashtag #PermitPatty and a subsequent wave of business backlash against Ettel and TreatWell Health.

So my little cousin was selling water and didn't have a permit so this lady decided to call the cops on an 8 year old. #PermitPatty pic.twitter.com/SiL61pnAgl

— Raj ?? (@_ethiopiangold) June 23, 2018

As of Monday morning, Magnolia Wellness in Oakland, Calif., had pulled TreatWell's products from its line of vendors and publicly boycotted the company.

“As of [June 23], Magnolia will no longer be carrying Treatwell Tinctures. After seeing this video of their CEO, calling the police on an 8-year-old entrepreneur selling water on a hot day, we decided without hesitation that we could no longer patronize her company,” according to a Magnolia Wellness Instagram post. “To our amazing patients who use the Treatwell products, please know we are working to ensure we can bring on some new amazing and ethical brands. Treatwell was one of our best-selling products but to us, integrity is always before products. For our remaining inventory, we are doing blow-out deals and donating all proceeds to a local non-profit.”

SPARC, Barbary Coast and Berkeley Patients Group have similarly decided to stop selling TreatWell products in their stores, according to Leafly. And Leafly has pulled TreatWell products from its products and brands listings.

“It was stupid,” Ettel told Huffington Post. “I completely regret that I handled that so poorly. It was completely stress-related, and I should have never confronted her. That was a mistake, a complete mistake. Please don’t make me sound horrible.”