LEWISTON — Stavros Mendros, a former state lawmaker and city councilor who has been in the hot seat for questionable signature-gathering campaigns in the past is again at the center of a controversy over a ballot question drive. David Boyer, the director of a citizen petition campaign that’s hoping to ask Maine voters to legalize […]
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Signature collectors stew over lack of payment
The number of signatures rejected in the casino petition was bad news for the people who helped collect them. In the wake of a failed bid to create a casino in southern Maine, several signature collectors were complaining that they had not been fully paid for their work. John Merchant, who came to Maine to […]
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Marijuana legalization fails to make ballot
David Boyer, Maine political director for the Marijuana Policy Project, said Wednesday afternoon that his group intends to challenge the ruling. “Based on documents they have provided, it appears that more than 17,000 valid signatures from registered Maine voters were excluded from the count because the signature of a single notary — whose notary commission […]
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Maine medical marijuana bill allows for lab testing and hospital access
AUGUSTA — A legislative committee unanimously approved a bill Wednesday that would give immunity from state law to hospitals that allow nonsmoking marijuana for patients who need it. The bill, LD 726, also defines in law what incidental marijuana is, including nonflowering plants or plant byproducts that have not yet been processed into medicinal products. […]
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Mt. Blue student expelled for pot brownies
FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 directors voted 9-3 Tuesday to indefinitely expel a Mt. Blue Campus student for distributing marijuana brownies on school property, Superintendent Tom Ward said Wednesday. Administrators will develop a re-entry plan. When the student completes the plan, Ward will determine if it was successfully done and recommend to directors whether […]
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Franklin County grand jury indicts 2 Jay men on pot charges
FARMINGTON – Two Jay men accused of having nearly 100 pounds of marijuana between them last year were indicted Thursday on drug charges in separate cases. John H. Sullivan, 34, of 986 Main St., was indicted on two felony counts of aggravated trafficking in marijuana and butane hash oil, and a felony charge of violation […]
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Maine weighs marijuana and highway safety
LEWISTON — As advocates for legal marijuana close in on a signature-gathering campaign likely to force a statewide ballot question in 2016, Maine lawmakers, law enforcement officers and elected officials are more seriously contemplating the broader implications of what legal weed would look in the Pine Tree State. Topping their concerns is a possible increase […]
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Policy for medical marijuana in school initialed
AUBURN — The School Committee approved the first reading of a new policy Wednesday night that would allow students to have medical marijuana administered in school under a physician’s orders and under certain conditions. Any medical marijuana would have to be approved by a physician, and it would have to be administered in school by […]
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Maine youth survey shows marijuana use remains steady
AUGUSTA — A recent survey of Maine youth suggests marijuana use by high school and middle school students remains steady while the use of other drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, is in decline, according to a group hoping to defeat a referendum aimed at legalizing marijuana. Scott Gagnon, director of Smart Approaches to Marijuana Maine, […]
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Maine legislative report considers marijuana’s effect on drivers
AUGUSTA — A legislative working group set up to make recommendations on how Maine should regulate drivers who use marijuana offered a divided report to lawmakers Tuesday. The majority of panel members agreed marijuana should be regulated like alcohol, including a blood-content test that sets limits for impairment, but a minority on the panel disagreed. The […]