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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) – A 14-member panel of state officials, police, medical professionals and others are trying to fix what they see as problems in Maine’s newly approved medical marijuana law so it can be implemented by its deadline.

The task force meets again Tuesday to work out kinks in the law voters approved in November. The newly adopted law changes decade-old legislation by expanding the conditions under which people can be prescribed marijuana and allowing for marijuana dispensaries.

The task force must adopt rules to implement the law by spring. Two of the members, Attorney General Janet Mills and Public Safety Commissioner Anne Jordan, say the law must be clarified in several areas, such as defining medical-grade marijuana.

The task force is scheduled to meet again in a week.

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