“I don’t live in fear; it’s just not my style,” says grower Chad Crandall, whose operation in Jay is outfitted with surveillance cameras and motion sensors. But he admits: “The cameras, the security system, it gives me peace of mind.” (Brianna Soukup/Portland Press Herald) Using crowbars and jackhammers, thieves broke into Dawson and Kelly Julia’s […]
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Marijuana industry target for crime
Using crowbars and jackhammers, thieves broke into Dawson and Kelly Julia’s medical cannabis grow in Unity two years ago, forcing their way past a locked steel door and boarded-up window to steal 60 marijuana plants valued at more than $50,000 from this husband-and-wife caregiver business. In under an hour, East Coast CBD’s entire marijuana crop […]
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DEA agent now private security consultant for cannabis growers
As a drug enforcement agent, Scott Durst spent three decades trying to put illegal drug dealers in jail, both in Maine and abroad. Now the retired police officer is making a second career for himself as a private security consultant for Maine’s legal cannabis growers, transporting cash between five state-licensed medical marijuana dispensaries and the […]
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Canadian company ditches plans for large Auburn pot grow
AUBURN (AP) — A Canadian company has ditched plans to buy a marijuana-growing facility in Auburn, Maine. The Bangor Daily News reports that Vancouver-based C21 investments pulled the plug on the deal because of rules imposed by the Maine Legislature. But the newspaper said the property’s owner, Kevin Dean, is also linked to a federal […]
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Adult-use pot ordinance moves forward in Hallowell
HALLOWELL — Marijuana may be coming downtown, but pot shop proliferation will be limited. Residents got a first look Wednesday at where adult-use marijuana establishments could sprout up in Hallowell once the Legislature lays out a framework for it. An ordinance regulating marijuana, drafted by a Marijuana Task Force appointed by Mayor Mark Walker, is […]
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Bethel planners consider medical marijuana application
BETHEL — Bethel Planning Board members Wednesday began consideration of an application by Gabe Stoppini to build a medical marijuana facility on his property on the East Bethel Road. Stoppini wants to build a new processing facility and eventually plans to have employees work in the building. One of the reasons he is doing this is […]
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Bethel voters to consider four marijuana site options in November
BETHEL — Selectmen voted unanimously this week to hold a referendum Nov. 6 on whether to allow adult-use marijuana establishments in town. Voters will be asked whether to allow: * Adult-use marijuana cultivation facilities; * Adult-use marijuana stores; * Adult-use marijuana products manufacturing facilities; and * Adult-use marijuana testing facilities. The decision was made despite […]
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Higher education: New L-A College class to study marijuana
LEWISTON — Professor Ike Levine’s new class at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College this fall — “Marijuana — Hemp, Hype, Hope and High” — will be purely academic. Mostly. “It’s not going to be a primer for people on how to grow pot. It’s not all about that,” Levine said. “It’s a little […]
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Massachusetts men indicted, connected to Twin Cities’ federal drug raid
Two Massachusetts men charged in federal court with possession with intent to distribute marijuana have ties to a Lewiston man arrested in federal raids in the Twin Cities area in February, according to court records. John Valdes, 52, of Amesbury, Massachusetts, faces two felonies and Steven Gallucci, 22, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, one felony. Each charge […]
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Man accused of selling marijuana illegally from Old Orchard Beach business
A Massachusetts man was arrested Thursday for allegedly selling marijuana illegally from an Old Orchard Beach business. Old Orchard Beach police and Maine Drug Enforcement agents executed a search warrant Thurday afternoon at the 925 Silver Shop on Old Orchard Avenue. They arrested Peter Mesak, 28, of Newburyport, Mass. He is charged with two counts […]