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 […]
marijuana
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
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 — […]
advertisement
Posted inMaine, sj-web
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 […]
Posted inRiver Valley
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 […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Pot use in social clubs under review
In this Nov. 21, 2014 file photo, former U.S. Marine Sgt. Ryan Begin smokes medical marijuana at his home in Belfast. Maine could be the first state in the country to license marijuana social clubs, but the pot would have to be consumed in the club, not smoked. The proposed adult-use marijuana bill under consideration […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Proposed marijuana regulations would let adults buy online and at drive-thrus
Maine may make purchasing an ounce of marijuana almost as easy as buying a six-pack of beer. Proposed adult-use cannabis regulations from the Legislature’s marijuana committee would allow licensed retail stores to sell pot from drive-up windows and over the internet. Like any other recreational marijuana consumer, drive-up and online customers would have to show […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Pot tweaks: Lawmakers propose raising sales tax on recreational marijuana
More political coverage…. AUGUSTA — A 10 percent sales tax is out, a 20 percent sales tax is in and businesses looking to get into the recreational marijuana market have a few more months to wait under proposed revisions to the state’s Marijuana Legislation Act released Tuesday morning. For months, a group of lawmakers known […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Maine court to decide if worker's comp has to pay for medical marijuana
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court will decide if state law requires Workers’ Compensation Insurance to pay for a millworker’s medical marijuana or if the insurer could be charged as an accessory in a drug deal under federal law. Justices are set to hear arguments in the case Wednesday at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta, […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Starks man charged with transporting marijuana infused beverages
ERVING, Mass. (AP) — Police in Massachusetts have arrested a Maine man they say was transporting more than 1,000 bottled beverages infused with THC, the active ingredient in marijuana that produces the high. Erving police say Simon Wiinikainen of Starks, Maine, was pulled over Wednesday for driving 62 mph in a 40 mph zone. Officers […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Marijuana may be legal, but the Border Patrol will seize it anyway
BANGOR (AP) — Border Patrol officials in Maine say they will still enforce federal law and confiscate marijuana after residents voted for legalization last November. Chief Daniel Hiebert tells The Portland Press Herald border agents are not actively looking for the drug, but they will confiscate it if found. With a short staff at the […]