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Maine's New Medical Marijuana Law Full Text

Becoming a Patient in Maine

Maine Voters First to License Medical Pot Shops

Governor Baldacci Names Task Force to Implement New Medical Marijuana Law

Too Paranoid to Prescribe Marijuana?

Patients Lose When Doctors Dismiss Promise of Healing Herbs

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Provisions Pending Before Marijuana Dispensation Can Begin

The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws


  

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Maine Voters First to License Medical Pot Shops

Ryan Grim, The Huffington Post, November 4, 2009


"Maine voters became the first to license nonprofit organizations to sell medical marijuana on Tuesday, with the state's Question 5 cruising to a landslide victory. With roughly half of the precincts reporting, six in ten Maine voters had tallied in favor of allowing state-licensed nonprofits to distribute pot to approved patients. Two other states -- Rhode Island and New Mexico -- have approved such nonprofits, but Maine is the first to do so through the ballot box. In California and Colorado, the dispensaries are not specifically regulated as pot shops, but rather as businesses in compliance with state laws."

Read more at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/04/maine-voters-first-to-lic_n_344812.html

 

 

Governor Baldacci Names Task Force to Implement New Medical Marijuana Law

State of Maine -- Office of the Governor, November 17, 2009

"Governor John E. Baldacci today announced the names of the appointments to the Committee on the Implementation of the Maine Medical Marijuana Act. The Governor created the task force by Executive Order on Nov. 6, following the medical marijuana law approved by Maine voters. The Governor said the task force would advise him on the appropriate way to implement the new law with safeguards to protect public health and safety."

Read more at http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/index.php?topic=Gov+News&id=84878&v=Article-2006

 

Too Paranoid to Prescribe Marijuana?

Bill Nemitz, The Portland Press Herald, November 18, 2009

"'There are thousands and thousands and thousands of people out there in the state of Maine, all legally qualified patients, who need to find doctors who are accepting of this,' said Jonathan Leavitt, director of the Maine Marijuana Policy Initiative.

"And that, despite the 59 percent majority of voters who approved the marijuana initiative two weeks ago, may still be easier said than done."

Read more at http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=296811&ac=PHnws

 

Patients Lose When Doctors Dismiss Promise of Healing Herbs

Sean Donahue, Portland Press Herald, November 21, 2009

"Bill Nemitz tells us that Dr. Andrew MacLean, executive vice president of the Maine Medical Association said 'the notion of actually prescribing marijuana – which is neither regulated nor approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration – makes many physicians fear that their FDA licenses to prescribe more traditional medicines might be jeopardized.' ('Too paranoid to prescribe maijuana,' Nov. 18.)

"That a doctor would describe synthetic pharmaceuticals developed in recent decades as 'more traditional' than a medicine that has been used around the world for 6,000 years is both ironic and indicative of a tremendous flaw in the way we view medicine in this country."

Read more at http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=297350&ac=PHedi