Gov. Paul LePage is proposing a moratorium on full implementation of Maine’s recreational marijuana law until 2019. According to House Minority Leader Ken Fredette, R-Newport, who is sponsoring the bill on behalf of LePage, both the law that’s on the books, which was enacted last year in a statewide referendum, and a new bill to […]
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Poland board OKs ban on marijuana businesses
POLAND — The Board of Selectpersons voted unanimously Tuesday night to enact a 90-day moratorium on allowing retail marijuana establishments and social clubs. Chairman Stan Tetenman said the town is “left in limbo” without official state regulations in place. “It’s not to say we don’t want any marijuana businesses in town,” he said, but selectpersons […]
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Legalize Maine warns rewritten marijuana law ‘not ready for prime time’
Legalize Maine has come out against the proposed legislative rewrite of a voter-approved recreational marijuana law, saying the bill that is slated for a special session vote Monday “isn’t ready for prime time.” The group’s president, Paul T. McCarrier, said the amendment to the state Marijuana Legalization Act would create chaos in the new market, […]
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Maine marijuana convention to focus on newly legal status
PORTLAND (AP) — The organizers of the 2017 Maine Cannabis Convention say this is a critically important year for the event because of the state’s recent move toward legal marijuana. The convention is scheduled to be held in Portland on Saturday and Sunday. Organizers say it’s an event for businesses, advocates, medical marijuana patients and […]
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Turner selectmen extend pot moratorium
TURNER — Selectmen voted unanimously Monday night to extend the moratorium on retail marijuana establishments for another 180 days. The moratorium was unanimously adopted by the board April 8 on the recommendation of the Maine Municipal Association. The association suggested towns adopt a moratorium ordinance banning marijuana retail stores and shops while regulations to govern […]
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Lawmakers decide how to divvy up 20% tax on retail marijuana
A legislative committee completed a sweeping rewrite of Maine’s recreational marijuana law Thursday that would double the tax rate, provide a cut to host towns and give Maine residents a two-year head start in the market. But committee leaders are worried that the LePage administration will scuttle the bill, either through an outright veto or […]
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Lawmakers add, cut and tweak Maine’s law for recreational marijuana
Daniel Walker, an attorney for Wellness Connection of Maine, testifies during Tuesday’s hearing by the Marijuana Legalization Implementation Committee. State lawmakers overhauled the rewrite of Maine’s recreational pot law Wednesday, nixing drive-ups, internet sales and home delivery, and giving current residents and medical growers a “leg up” in the new market. The legislative committee writing […]
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Disabled marijuana cultivators face eviction from Lewiston apartment
LEWISTON — In a bedroom of her Healy Terrace apartment, 65-year-old Susan Deschene created an elaborate growing room for three carefully cultivated marijuana plants in containers filled with ground-up coconut husks. For the pain-racked family and child counselor — who uses a wheelchair and whose health has kept her from working for a decade — […]
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Public weighs in on marijuana regulations
Paul T. McCarrier, of Legalize Maine, testifies Tuesday during a hearing of the Joint Select Committee on Marijuana Legalization Implementation at the State House in Augusta. AUGUSTA — Lawmakers heard a familiar chorus of impassioned concerns about license preferences, tax rates and local control at an emotional, standing-room-only hearing on a proposed rewrite of Maine’s […]
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Mexico votes against marijuana ordinance
Most of the 80 people attending a special town meeting in Mexico on Sept. 19 voted against prohibition on retail marijuana establishments and retail marijuana social clubs. MEXICO — Residents have voted overwhelmingly against prohibition of retail marijuana establishments and social clubs. Some 80 people packed the Mexico Town Hall for a special town meeting on […]