Paul LePage Intends to Push Back Legalized Marijuana Sales in Maine Until Next Year

October 20,2017 Maine

The Republican Governor of Maine, Paul LePage, is suggesting that state Lawmakers should think of extending adult-use cannabis sales instead of ratifying a legislative re-write of the cannabis law backed and supported by the voters.

Maine’s elected representatives will meet on Monday to consider the implementation of the rewrite offered by legislative committee of the state looking over the regulation and implementation of cannabis use in Maine.

Ken Fredette, the Republican minority leader in the Maine House of Representatives said he is supporting the Governor’s bill to holdup adult-use marijuana sales until January 2019. The legalized sales of cannabis in the state had already been pushed back to February 2017.

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According to Minority leader of the House, there are reservations about the committee’s suggestions and lawmakers will need considerable time to go through the 70-page bill which will also ultimately back the sales of adult-use cannabis to 2019.

According to the advocacy group of adult-use of cannabis, Legalize Maine, the Committee’s bill would make it difficult to found new cannabis businesses. The president of Legalize Maine, Paul McCarrier is of the thought that a rewrite of the legislation is far from what has been approved by the voters last year and it will inadvertently promote the black market of cannabis business.

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