AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A legislative committee trying to implement Maine's new medical marijuana law has agreed on a plan that allows up to eight medical marijuana dispensaries across the state.
Patients and caregivers would have to register with the Department of Health and Human Services and obtain a state-issued identity card to legally purchase marijuana.
Maine is one of 13 states that allows medical use of marijuana. But there was no formal system for obtaining the marijuana other than growing small amounts until last November, when voters expanded the law.
Since then, the Legislature has been grappling with how to implement the changes.
The Kennebec Journal says the Health and Human Services Committee gave unanimous support Thursday. The full Legislature could take up the bill as early as next week.
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Information from: Kennebec Journal, http://www.kjonline.com/
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making me hungary
making me hungary
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This proposal is designed to encourage the illegal sale of the drug at the local (street corner) level. Democrats encouraging small business growth?
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This sounds like a huge cop-out by legislators who refuse to listen to a vast majority of the people of Maine. The idea I voted for did not have a number restriction.
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A good first step, but marijuana and all drug use has to be re-evaluated and legalized where possible. We worked on the same thing almost 100 years ago on alcohol and the world is still the same. People want drugs, are buying drugs and using drugs. What we are doing now is the same as what you see in old films with the revenuers smashing stills in the woods. I say legalize drugs, set standards, and let the State operate stores as they used to for liquor. We will get rid of organized crime selling it, will empty our jails of drug law offenders, save the money we waste on drug eradication and all be the better for it.
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I think the key phrase here maybe "up to eight." We may well find the state authorizes one dispensery and it is someplace like St. Francis, Aroostook County on the Canadian Boarder. The State gives consumers of oxycontin or morphine two of the most destructive, addictive, debillitating concoctions ever invented by man no limits, restrictions or identification requirements in filling prescriptions but a naturally occuring herb that preserves the sight, preventing blindness in a glaucoma patient will require a special identification card is insane, unjust and disrespectful. For oxycontin and morphin, two of the most addictive, heavily traded and abused to be freely traded while medical marajuana is singled out in this manner is just plain wrong. This from someone who uses no narcotics and has no need or desire fore marajuana. As a Maine voter I am insensed.
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in the right direction, FINALLY!!
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