WASHINGTON — The federal government said Thursday that it won’t sue to stop the states of Colorado and Washington from allowing recreational marijuana use. In a sweeping policy announcement, the Justice Department outlined eight top priority areas for its enforcement of marijuana laws. They range from preventing the distribution of marijuana to minors to preventing […]
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Vassalboro man indicted after police find 1,000 prescription pills, 8 pounds of marijuana
AUGUSTA — A Vassalboro man who police allegedly found with more than $20,000 worth of drugs was one of 29 people indicted by a Kennebec County grand jury on Thursday. Shane Leslie Wood, 46, was indicted on a Class A charge of aggravated trafficking in scheduled drugs and on two counts of Class C aggravated […]
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Police still searching for suspect in Rumford pot bust
PARIS — A Rumford woman was released on bail Monday after appearing before a judge via video on charges of aggravated drug trafficking and unlawful possession of scheduled drugs. Becky Collette-Theriault, 41, was arrested Friday at her home at 18 Erchles St. on a warrant after police seized more than a pound of marijuana from the […]
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Wells man charged with receiving delivery of 22 pounds of marijuana
DOVER, N.H. (AP) — A Maine man is accused of possessing 22 pounds of marijuana in New Hampshire. Thirty-year-old James Barnes of Wells, Maine, was arrested Tuesday in Dover after police said they conducted a controlled delivery of the drug to him. The delivery was conducted by the New Hampshire State Police Narcotics and Investigations […]
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Portland voters to decide whether to legalize marijuana
PORTLAND — Proponents of legalizing the recreational use of marijuana in Maine’s largest city evoked the controversial George Zimmerman verdict during a Monday news conference in Portland and said laws against pot are used to unfairly target blacks. “Our justice system is failing us,” said Regina Phillips, an executive board member of the Maine NAACP, […]
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Portland City Council to discuss legalizing pot tonight
PORTLAND — The Portland City Council will discuss making it legal for adults to possess marijuana in the city in a public hearing tonight. The hearing focuses on a citizen initiative that would make marijuana possession legal for people who are at least 21 years old. The council could enact the ordnance or let voters decide. […]
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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 […]