Only a handful of cities and towns in Maine have laid the groundwork for retail sales.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine
Pot prices emerge as a top concern at hearing on recreational cannabis rules
About 100 people turn out for the first public airing of the state’s proposed rules, raising concerns that the taxes, prices and labeling requirements will hurt small businesses and their customers.
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Public has chance to weigh in on marijuana regulation
National experts have already suggested ways to improve rules, from allowing online purchases and retail delivery to banning hazardous extraction methods and most forms of advertising.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
Auburn council to vote on comprehensive marijuana ordinance
After a lengthy committee process, the City Council on Monday will likely “opt-in” to allowing recreational marijuana business in Auburn.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Thayer sees Twin Cities' cannabis and hemp potential
LEWISTON — Dan Thayer does not like to call it pot or marijuana. Those names, he told the Great Falls Forum at the Lewiston Public Library on Thursday, are designed to stigmatize. But by any name, he sees business potential here. Thayer, president and co-founder of Thayer Corp., a heating and cooling company in Auburn, created the new Lifespring Microclimates division in 2014 to offer guidance […]
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Angus King supports push for cannabis for veterans
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s independent senator says he is getting behind an effort to research how medicinal cannabis could help veterans. Sen. Angus King is part of a bipartisan group of legislators that wants to authorize the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to advance research about the safety and efficacy of medicinal cannabis for veterans […]
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Home labs for extracting cannabis concentrates an emerging public safety threat
BIDDEFORD — First responders and code enforcement inspectors have come across dozens of marijuana plants growing legally in apartments and houses across the city. But in late April they came across something new – and potentially dangerous – while putting out a fire in a downtown apartment building. In the kitchen of a third-floor apartment […]
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Maine’s first radio show on cannabis aims to entertain, and ‘meducate’
Maine is now home to a cannabis-themed radio show, an hourlong mix of music and talk that is co-hosted by a high-profile medical marijuana caregiver. Dawson Julia, the owner of a medical marijuana shop in Unity, will tackle a different topic every week on the Cannabis Connection, which airs from 6-7 p.m. on Mondays on […]
Posted inFranklin
UMF faculty members receive grants to study medicinal cannabis strains
FARMINGTON — More than $100,000 in research grants, received by two natural science faculty members at the University of Maine at Farmington, will fund a study on the chemical profile of medicinal cannabis. Jean Doty, professor of biology, and Terry Morocco, associate professor of chemistry, have started a four-year project to look at medical cannabis […]
Posted inNation / World, sj-web
Marijuana’s march toward mainstream confounds feds
WASHINGTON — It took 50 years for American attitudes about marijuana to zigzag from the paranoia of “Reefer Madness” to the excesses of Woodstock back to the hard line of “Just Say No.” The next 25 years took the nation from Bill Clinton, who famously “didn’t inhale,” to Barack Obama, who most emphatically did. And […]