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Bankers, accountants, lawyers, real estate brokers and other professionals hoping to serve Maine's recreational marijuana industry spent much of the $260,000 that has been paid to State House marijuana lobbyists so far in 2017. That figure is sizable by Maine standards, representing about 5...

The top U.S. Border Patrol agent in Maine cautioned residents Monday that officers will still confiscate marijuana when they encounter it and that even family connections to the cannabis industry can disqualify someone from federal employment. Chief Daniel Hiebert, who heads the Houlton...

Maine State Police want more resources to train officers and to fight the flow of black market marijuana in Maine, but are not pushing for a cannabis blood-level threshold to help prove suspected impaired driving. As lawmakers continue working on the complexities of legalizing marijuana in...

As the legalization of recreational marijuana sales in Maine nears, a legislative panel has spent months pondering the best way to tax pot to bring in state revenue, fund regulatory enforcement and discourage the illicit market. In November, legalization of recreational marijuana was...

As the legalization of recreational marijuana sales in Maine nears, a legislative panel has spent months pondering the best way to tax pot to bring in state revenue, fund regulatory enforcement and discourage the illicit market. In November, legalization of recreational marijuana was...

Well I am a grower and it is for medicine have lower back knee and ankle pain for a car accident in my teens. I have been growing for 10 years of and on and I just love to grow. Any questions I will answer to the best of my knowledge and I am always looking and coming up with new and better ways...

When it comes to embarrassing political headlines, Maine is usually miles ahead of Massachusetts. That's thanks in large part to Governor Paul LePage who's known for, um, his bombastic style. But on at least one issue, Maine political observers and lobbyists say, the Pine Tree state has...

Though Maine has legalized recreational marijuana, don't expect the U.S. Coast Guard to be on board with a state law. Boaters who plan to get out on Maine waters this holiday weekend should prepare to be boarded by federal and state law enforcement officers, who will be out in force as they...

A request to Congress by Attorney General Jeff Sessions for authority to prosecute state medical marijuana providers is raising alarm in Maine's medical marijuana community, with one leader calling the potential move "downright frightening" for the tens of thousands of medical cannabis patients...

Retail marijuana businesses would be relegated to the Maine Mall area and outer Broadway near the Scarborough town line under a preliminary zoning proposal that the City Council will begin reviewing Monday. Municipal staff members drafted the proposal as a starting point for workshop...

State lawmakers are considering whether to eliminate a cap on the amount of marijuana that can be grown for recreational sale in Maine. Last fall, voters narrowly approved the Marijuana Legalization Act, a ballot initiative that limited the amount of marijuana that could be grown for retail sale...

Retail sales of marijuana may still be a year away, but cannabis-related cash is already flowing at the Maine State House as businesses jockey to influence the policies that will govern the lucrative recreational market. Between Dec. 1 and March 31, clients paid lobbyists more than $140,000...

Other states have let some sell early while rules for new stores are created, but who would qualify is debatable. Medical marijuana dispensaries and caregivers are quietly lobbying state lawmakers to allow them to sell pot to recreational users before retail cannabis stores open in Maine next...

BANGOR, Maine - Federal officials are set to announce how $1.1 million in forfeited money from a massive marijuana grow operation will be distributed to Maine law enforcement agencies. The marijuana operation was concealed in the woods and bogs in Washington County. Drug agents in 2009 seized...

Maine just legalized and retail won't be online until at least Feb 2018 (due to a delayed referendum included in the law...they are basically trying to figure out how to tax it). In the meantime, it is legal for 21+ to use cannabis and, for Maine residents 21+, to cultivate, possess, and give...

Newbie for cannabis and very glad to have found this online resource. We farm here @ 44'N in Maine so we have a lot of infrastructure already (insulated greenhouses and high tunnels) so we are going with what we know (and have) and not investing in lights etc. Maine just passed as law that...

Portland, Maine – Maine police want clarification about how President Donald Trump's administration will approach legal marijuana. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday he expects states with legalized recreational pot to be subject to more enforcement of federal marijuana...

Finally legalized in our state last week, so we are exercising our rights and growing in our passive solar greenhouse. Got the WW(F) and NLA from CropKing and plan to use natural light. We only start getting 10+ hour daylight beginning in April/May, so wondering if I should wait until...

Maine has become the eighth state to eliminate criminal penalties specific to the adult possession and personal use of cannabis. Language in Question 1: the Marijuana Legalization Act, specific to the private possession and cultivation of marijuana by adults took effect today. It permits adults...

Maine on Monday became the eighth state in the nation to allow adults over the age of 21 to possess and consume marijuana for recreational purposes. Maine joins six Western states and neighboring Massachusetts in allowing recreational pot, after voters narrowly passed a ballot measure in...