Recreational marijuana is legal in Maryland. Can Pennsylvanians buy it? – Medical Marijuana Program Connection

By BRIAN WITTE, The Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland is becoming the latest state to legally sell recreational marijuana to adults 21 and older, as businesses aim to tap into July Fourth festivities to kick off sales.

About 100 stores that already have been licensed to sell cannabis for medicinal purposes will be able to begin selling it recreationally Saturday, more than five years after the state started selling medical marijuana.

“This is cannabis’ kind of Independence Day — over Independence Day weekend — and so it’s nice to be able to pull something together that makes it more of a celebratory occasion,” said Brandon Barksdale, co-CEO of Remedy Maryland, which has a superstore in Columbia.

You don’t have to live in Maryland to buy there: Any adult with a valid ID, such as a driver’s license or passport, can buy recreational marijuana there, the Baltimore Sun reports. Maryland is the fourth Pennsylvania border state, along with Delaware, New York and New Jersey, to legalize recreational marijuana. (Medical marijuana is legal in Pennsylvania.)

However, as the Hanover Sun reports, it’s not legal to take the drug across state lines: “Possessing marijuana is a crime in Pennsylvania, even though some municipalities, including York, Lancaster, Harrisburg and Steelton, have decriminalized it.”

The Maryland law…