"This is a frivolous legal filing by an out-of state company and its lobbyist that threatens to delay Maryland's medical cannabis program even further," said Jake Van Wingerden, chairman of the Maryland Wholesale Medical Cannabis Association. Alternative Medicine Maryland "was unsuccessful in its home state of New York, did not even finish in the top 20 in Maryland's double-blind application process, and is now seeking to disrupt Maryland's medical cannabis program to satisfy its own greed."