Multistate operator Curio Wellness was fined $26,000 by Maryland regulators after reviewing video footage of employees at its flagship Maryland store retrieving cannabis from a dumpster that was later sold to medical patients and consumers.

The company on Feb. 16 signed a consent order from the Maryland Cannabis Administration (MCA) acknowledging that workers at its Far & Dotter store in Timonium, just north of Baltimore, engaged in several health and safety violations and ignored standard operating procedures to mitigate potential contamination, dispose waste and properly log developments related to the incident.

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According to the consent order, an inventory manager at the store sent video footage to the MCA in August 2023 depicting that 64 units of Amnesia OG flower, sealed in jars,

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