Temp worker Audra Dieffenbach applied for a full-time job at MaineHealth but failed a federally required drug test because the legal supplement she uses to relieve pain left too much THC in her system.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine
Wellness Connection sues pot edibles partner, claiming breach of contract
Wellness Connection, Maine’s largest medical marijuana dispensary firm, claims that substandard equipment and processes failed to produce enough THC from its marijuana extractions.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime, News
No arrests in Auburn pot raid
AUBURN — Police said Saturday that no arrests had been made in Friday’s raid of a building on Riverside Drive that resulted in multiple marijuana plants being confiscated. Auburn Deputy Chief Tim Cougle said Saturday that there was no new information to share on the raid. The Auburn Police Department assisted agents from the High […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime
Photo: Police confiscate pot plants in Auburn
Auburn police officer Joshua King helps federal drug agents load confiscated marijuana plants into a trailer Friday afternoon from a building on Riverside Drive in New Auburn. Auburn police joined in the raid by agents from the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, a task force made up of federal officers. The team was seen pulling […]
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, The Buzz
Medical marijuana storefront applies for permit for Auburn Mall parking lot
Auburn has an application pending for a medical marijuana storefront in the former bank building in the Auburn Mall parking lot. Deputy City Clerk Kelsey Earle said the space is an allowable zone for it and isn’t within a setback from other businesses. The city hasn’t limited the number of medical marijuana shops allowed, but […]
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Wellness Connection at heart of New England marijuana fight
Maine’s biggest medical marijuana provider wants to break up with the Rhode Island company behind its extraction operation, blaming it for $14 million in losses.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Business, Lewiston-Auburn
Lisbon to consider permit for third medical marijuana store
LISBON – Lisbon could be getting another medical marijuana store, the town’s third in since Lisbon approved new rules allowing and regulating marijuana businesses last fall. Michael Scalia of Crystal Spring Healing Alternatives proposed a medical marijuana store at 1 Upland Road. The building, at the corner of Webster Road, is about 500 feet from Route 196 behind […]
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World, News
Asparagus makes way for weed in Canada’s fields
The appeal is clear: growing outdoors can cost as little as one-fifth that of greenhouse production and it can be marketed as being grown “au naturel” under the sun.
Posted inThe Penobscot Times
Orono council to continue marijuana establishment talks
The Orono Town Council will continue its long review of local regulation of marijuana establishments, with the possibility of the issue going to referendum early next year.
Posted inThe Penobscot Times
Orono council to talk further on marijuana establishments on July 29
Town officials have been working on local marijuana rules for nearly 18 months and are close to getting ready to adopt regulations.