Last week, staff on the city’s Marijuana Implementation Working Group proposed a temporary six-month moratorium on marijuana caregiver retail stores, manufacturing facilities, and testing facilities to the Portland City Council.
Almost every cannabis lover in my life has considered starting their own casual home grow operation, but few have managed to pull it off. It turns out, it takes a great deal of work! I spoke with some cannabis growers in Portland about what it takes to grow good bud and the mistakes they mad…
One of the few bills that managed to pass in the Legislature last week was LD 1539, “An Act To Amend Maine's Medical Marijuana Law” — and I’m so glad that it did.
In early May, the Maine Legislature voted to overturn Gov. LePage’s veto on the adult use marijuana bill. But due to an extensive list of regulations that still need to be drafted, at least another year will pass before the first recreational cannabis stores start popping up.
Last week, a column ran in this space ("The Changes to Maine's Medical Marijuana Industry Are Very, Very Bad," by Sam Haiden in the February 15 issue) that made some erroneous claims about the position Legalize Maine — the organization that successfully campaigned to legalize recreational ma…
Pro-cannabis Mainers — pay attention!
Progress with Maine’s marijuana law has slowed to a crawl and it’s easy to get the important details hazy. Unless you were completely couch-locked all month, here’s a quick refresher of cannabis law in Maine and what the heck is up.
To summarize the progress of cannabis legislature in 2017, Rep. Martin Grohman, a Biddeford independent, said it best in an interview with the Press Herald. “I feel like we legalized gasoline, but not gas stations.”While the overall momentum seems to be lurching forward, it's doing so at an …
For the first time in American history, if you wanted to legally consume an alternative mind-altering substance to alcohol, you have the chance to do so. The cannabis market is evolving from a illegal market to a legal one — for those with enough privilege to avoid the criminal system, anywa…
Anti-marijuana activists have touted for years that legalization would lead to rampant use among minors and would eventually influence them to try hard drugs.
Although Maine voters legalized the use of recreational marijuana at the polls in November 2016, and legalization took effect in January, a veto issued Nov. 3 by Gov. Paul LePage, upheld a few days later by the Maine House, have made it likely that commercial production and retail sales are …
What will Maine’s cannabis landscape look like once the moratorium on the recreational marketplace expires this February?
If you’re the type of person that seeks out columns like this one to read, you’re most likely exempt from the following judgment: why are there still so many ignorant people that view marijuana as some highly toxic, dangerous drug?
If (for whatever reason) you had to convince someone about the legitimacy of the burgeoning cannabis industry, show them some of its products.
There are many intelligent, knowledgeable people in the Maine cannabis industry that opposed the recreational cannabis sales bill that was vetoed by Governor LePage earlier this week. The bill was not perfect by any stretch of the imagination and I respect the opinions of those who were agai…