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 […]