Regulator
Maryland Cannabis Administration
MCA Review Build
Maryland Cannabis Responsible Vendor Training
Maryland-first Responsible Vendor Training build for cannabis business agents at dispensaries, growers, and processors. The course is staged for MCA review with English/Spanish instruction, no-skip LMS controls, identity checks, a 70 percent final-test gate, evaluations, and four-year records.
Seat Time
4-hour / 240-minute locked minimum; 255-minute authored allocation
Price
$24.99-$29.99 after MCA approval
Business Accounts
Employer bulk enrollment with roster and certificate tracking after approval
Audience
Maryland dispensary, grower, and processor employers that need annual RVT completion records for cannabis business agents.
Price below MCA's $50 review expectation, bilingual delivery, and employer-grade records are the wedge; the product is built for compliance managers buying seats, not passive SEO traffic.
Final Test
Scored final post-training test; 70 percent required before any certificate release
Maryland first: finish and lock the 4-hour LMS, QA every Maryland citation, confirm no Maryland cannabis-license interest, then file the MCA application and cashier's check.
Approval Controls
This surface is built to show MCA how the course prevents skipping, verifies identity, records activity, and preserves evidence before any certificate is released.
Identity verification: named account, student identity fields, completion affidavit, and employer roster matching before certificate release.
No-skip LMS: sequential lesson gates, active seat-time tracking, idle handling, and locked final test access until the 240-minute minimum and required checks are complete.
Interactive learning: scenario prompts, role-specific checks for dispensary, grower, and processor agents, and knowledge checks in every module.
Final test and evaluation: 70 percent passing score, answer key retained for review, post-course evaluation, and correction workflow for MCA feedback.
Records: numbered certificates, verification URL, certificate PDF hash, training/evaluation records, and four-year minimum retention for MCA inspection.
Regulator access: reviewer account prepared for MCA staff to observe the complete course without notice, with no payment or public enrollment enabled.
B2B Sales After Approval
The product is designed for dispensary, grower, and processor groups that need annual tracking, not for a passive SEO page.
Bulk seat import for Maryland licensees: CSV-ready employee roster with location, agent role, due date, status, and manager contact.
Employer certificate tracking: purchased, assigned, in-progress, passed, certificate ID, renewal year, and missing-completion reminders.
Annual compliance cadence: renewal reminders built around the January 1 annual RVT expectation and new-hire completion windows.
Audit export: downloadable roster for compliance managers and MCA inspection requests, including identity, seat time, final score, evaluation, and certificate evidence.
Business buying path: individual price stays under $30 after approval; employer batches can be invoiced without weakening the MCA price-reasonableness posture.
Maryland Course Map
The 4-hour path uses the existing RVT core with Maryland-specific authority hooks for MCA rules, licensing, sales, privacy, packaging, records, and sanctions.
M130 min4 checks
Relevant statutory and regulatory provisions (core curriculum of the state's cannabis laws/rules)
Maryland MCA authority, Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis Article Title 36, COMAR 14.17, and why RVT is a license-protection program for business agents.
COMAR 14.17.15.05; Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis Article Sections 36-1001 to 36-1003
- Identify the core statutory and regulatory framework that authorizes and governs licensed cannabis dispensaries, and explain why a dispensary's license is conditioned on ongoing compliance with those rules.
- Apply the foundational point-of-sale rules — age and identity verification, purchase and possession limits, and tracking requirements — to routine dispensary transactions.
M235 min4 checks
Required licenses, license types, and licensing/enforcement protocols (state and local)
Maryland license types, business-agent registration, owner and key-person boundaries, and the dispensary, grower, and processor tracks now reviewed by MCA.
COMAR 14.17.06 to 14.17.09; COMAR 14.17.15; COMAR 14.17.16
- Identify the major cannabis license categories (cultivation, processing/manufacturing, dispensary/retail, transport, and testing) and explain how a dispensary's retail license differs from the licenses held by its suppliers.
- Describe what licensees and individual employees must keep current and on display, including facility licenses, agent or employee credentials, and the right of regulators to conduct announced or unannounced inspections.
M335 min4 checks
Age verification and acceptable forms of ID (incl. patient/caregiver registry/ID cards in medical-cannabis states); detecting fake IDs and preventing sales to minors
Maryland age, ID, medical-patient, caregiver, and prohibited-sale rules with refusal scripts for minors, invalid IDs, and proxy purchases.
COMAR 14.17.04; COMAR 14.17.12; COMAR 14.17.14
- Identify the legally acceptable forms of identification for adult-use and medical-cannabis transactions, including patient and caregiver registry ID cards, and state who must be carded.
- Apply a consistent age-verification workflow at the point of entry and the point of sale, and recognize the registry-status and purchase-limit checks unique to medical patients and caregivers.
M430 min4 checks
Preventing diversion, theft, and unlawful acts; loss-prevention and reporting/cooperating with investigations
Maryland diversion prevention, theft response, inventory reconciliation, Metrc discipline, and escalation when product or records do not match.
COMAR 14.17.14; COMAR 14.17.20; Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis Article Section 36-1101
- Define diversion, theft, and common unlawful acts in a licensed dispensary, and identify the internal and external behaviors that signal each.
- Apply core loss-prevention controls — inventory reconciliation, access restrictions, surveillance, and dual-control cash and product handling — to prevent and detect loss at the point of sale and in the vault.
M535 min4 checks
Recordkeeping, record retention, and inventory/seed-to-sale tracking
Maryland training records, security, medical emergency, fire, chemical spill, threatening event, SOP, and drug-free workplace requirements.
COMAR 14.17.15.05(A)-(B); COMAR 21.11.08.03
- Explain why a dispensary must maintain accurate, auditable records and how the state seed-to-sale tracking system links every plant, package, and sale to a unique tag so that product can be reconciled and traced.
- Identify the categories of records a dispensary employee creates or touches each shift, the minimum retention periods required by Maryland and Colorado rules, and the difference between a discrepancy that must be corrected and one that must be reported.
M635 min4 checks
Privacy requirements and patient/consumer rights (e.g., HIPAA-adjacent patient data protections)
Maryland medical-patient privacy, consumer data, registry boundaries, marketing consent, and minimum-necessary handling at the counter and back office.
COMAR 14.17.04; COMAR 14.17.14
- Explain why a cannabis dispensary is generally NOT a HIPAA-covered entity, yet is bound by cannabis-program privacy rules and general consumer-data law that protect patient and consumer information just as strictly in practice.
- Identify the categories of patient and consumer data a dispensary collects, who may lawfully access them, and the day-to-day handling rules that keep that data confidential at the point of sale and in the back office.
M760 min4 checks
Cannabis sale, transfer, and delivery requirements; packaging, labeling, and advertising standards
Maryland sale, transfer, delivery, packaging, labeling, advertising, potency, impairment, final scenarios, course evaluation, and the 70 percent final test gate.
COMAR 14.17.12; COMAR 14.17.13; COMAR 14.17.15.05(E)(2)
- Apply the at-the-counter sale and transfer rules — age and ID verification, daily purchase (equivalency) limits, restricted-product rules, and seed-to-sale point-of-sale recording — so that every transaction is legal and traceable.
- Verify that any product leaving the dispensary, whether by in-store sale or delivery, is in compliant child-resistant, tamper-evident, opaque packaging bearing every required label element (THC content, universal symbol, warnings, batch/test data).
Do Not Mail The Check Yet
The $500 fee should wait until the course, exam, evaluation, and reviewer package are final.
Final LMS course, audio/graphics/design features, knowledge checks, final exam, answer key, and evaluation are locked before submission.
Maryland legal QA confirms no more than typo-level issues and no missing required component before the application enters review.
Conflict-of-interest attestation confirms no employment by or ownership/control interest in a Maryland cannabis licensee or registrant.
Provider profile uses Driver Course Platform LLC d/b/a National Course Portal and Dr. Ankur Fadia, MD as the responsible principal.
Application fee package is ready only after the course is final: $500 cashier's check or money order payable to Maryland Cannabis Administration.