FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 directors will hold an expulsion hearing Tuesday, April 12, for a high school student accused of distributing marijuana brownies to another student on school property, Superintendent Tom Ward said. The hearing will top the board’s agenda at 6 p.m. in The Forum at Mt. Blue High School. After the hearing, […]
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Two traffic stops lead to arrest of 4
RUMFORD — Four New York residents were arrested Saturday following two separate vehicle stops, police said. Around 9:12 a.m., Sgt. James Bernard stopped a vehicle on Hancock Street for excessive speed. He spoke to the driver and smelled a strong odor of marijuana, Rumford Police Chief Stacey Carter said in a news release. Arrested were Diamonds […]
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Mt. Blue student expelled for pot brownies
FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 directors voted 9-3 Tuesday to indefinitely expel a Mt. Blue Campus student for distributing marijuana brownies on school property, Superintendent Tom Ward said Wednesday. Administrators will develop a re-entry plan. When the student completes the plan, Ward will determine if it was successfully done and recommend to directors whether […]
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Policy for medical marijuana in school initialed
AUBURN — The School Committee approved the first reading of a new policy Wednesday night that would allow students to have medical marijuana administered in school under a physician’s orders and under certain conditions. Any medical marijuana would have to be approved by a physician, and it would have to be administered in school by […]
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Paris man indicted on marijuana charges
PARIS — Richard R. Jackson, 48, of King Hill Road in Paris was indicted Oct. 16 on charges of possessing more than a pound of marijuana and cultivating 100 or more marijuana plants. The charges come more than a year after police seized 18 pounds of marijuana and 173 plants from two King Hill residences in […]
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Paris police burn large, spoiled pot stash
PARIS — Police burned a stash of spoiled marijuana — valued at half a million dollars — seized in a raid last year in an apparent case of medical marijuana abuse that has yet to yield charges. Paris Police Department Det. Jeffrey Lange said Monday that the medical marijuana had wilted, molded and decomposed inside a steel vault […]
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Three deny drug charges in Sabattus pot bust
AUBURN — Two Sabattus women and a man charged in a family pot-growing operation denied related charges Thursday. David Bizier, 51, pleaded not guilty in Androscoggin County Superior Court to aggravated trafficking of a scheduled drug, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. He also was charged with criminal forfeiture of $6,000 […]
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UMF faculty members receive grants to study medicinal cannabis strains
FARMINGTON — More than $100,000 in research grants, received by two natural science faculty members at the University of Maine at Farmington, will fund a study on the chemical profile of medicinal cannabis. Jean Doty, professor of biology, and Terry Morocco, associate professor of chemistry, have started a four-year project to look at medical cannabis […]
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Recreational marijuana bills could forestall statewide ballot measures
AUGUSTA — For state Rep. Diane Russell, D-Portland, it’s not a matter of if Maine will legalize marijuana for recreational use, but how it will do so. Also now at stake is whether Maine voters will get to weigh in this year or next. Russell and state Rep. Mark Dion, D-Portland, both have bills before […]
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Two of five suspects in Poland home invasion deny charges
AUBURN — Two men denied robbery charges Friday stemming from a Dec. 11 home invasion in Poland. Adam Douglas McIntosh, 32, of Freeport and Terry L. Small, 47, of 9 Callahan Circle, Mechanic Falls, pleaded not guilty in Androscoggin County Superior Court. Both were brought to the courtroom from Androscoggin County Jail. Small also pleaded […]