BANGOR — A man with dual citizenship in Mexico and the U.S. identified Malcolm French as the person who asked him to find migrant workers to plant, tend and harvest marijuana at the Township 37 pot farm that police have called the most sophisticated ever uncovered in Maine. Moises Soto, 53, of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, […]
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David Sirota: Reefer sanity takes hold in Colorado
Seven years before legal marijuana went on sale this month in my home state of Colorado, the drug warriors in President George W. Bush’s administration released an advertisement that is now worth revisiting. “I smoked weed and nobody died,” intoned the teenage narrator. “I didn’t get into a car accident. I didn’t O.D. on heroin […]
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MDEA agent: Slug bait, porn magazines link Township 37 pot farm to locations owned by defendant
BANGOR — The lead investigator in the Township 37 marijuana case testified Friday in federal court that many of the items seized as evidence at the site where nearly 3,000 mature marijuana plants were cultivated also were found at a nearby warehouse and in a home and hunting camp owned by one of the defendants. […]
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Sumner group brings activism to the stage with a ‘Marijuana Musical’
SUMNER — For years, Jon Leavitt has recorded his experiences as a medical marijuana caregiver and activist, detailing the characters and stories of a community of growers and patients in Western Maine. Now, with help from a team of performers and musicians, he has put those stories to music in “Somewhere, Maine: The Marijuana Musical,” an eight-act […]
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Troopers find marijuana, crack during I-95 traffic stop
OAKFIELD — A routine traffic stop resulted in the discovery of about two pounds of marijuana and more than four ounces of crack cocaine, Maine State Police reported Saturday. A Presque Isle man was arrested on drug charges, and the driver of the vehicle was charged with violating a motor vehicle law. Robert Van Houten, […]
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Maine pot advocates use new study to bolster arguments
PORTLAND — A federal study on teen drug use — showing increased marijuana use among eighth- and 10th-graders — is being used by Maine legalization advocates and their opponents alike to bolster their respective cases. In November, Portland voters overwhelmingly approved an ordinance legalizing possession of small amounts of pot for nonmedical uses, making Maine’s […]
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Maine parents hoping to treat sick children with medical marijuana face obstacles
PORTLAND (AP) — Medical marijuana is legal for children in Maine if they pass a state certification process, but about two dozen families who want to try it say they have run into numerous obstacles. The parents are eager to obtain a strain of medical marijuana that’s extremely low in the psychoactive component that makes […]
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Marijuana plants removed from Lewiston fire scene
A Lewiston Police Department spokesman declined to talk about the removal of the plants and whether they had a connection to the fire, which was reported before 3 a.m. and closed down portions of Oxford and Lincoln streets. Lincoln Street opened a few hours later, and Oxford Street reopened just before 11 a.m. Damage to […]
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Kittery police say they arrested man who sold pot that made students ill
KITTERY — Police say a Maine man was charged with marijuana trafficking after two students who allegedly bought pot from him fell ill. Police say 19-year-old Matthew Dayton of Kittery was charged Tuesday night after officers executing a search warrant found marijuana, scales and other items at his home. The Portsmouth Herald says two Kittery […]
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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union plans to add pot awareness to crusade
PORTLAND — The mansion that serves as Maine headquarters of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union lay largely fallow until recently, with drug needles, liquor bottles and pornographic magazines littering the grounds. Now, in the state where Prohibition had its roots and in a city that just legalized recreational marijuana, the WCTU is overhauling the building […]