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maineyankee
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I would be one if you so choose.
tet1953
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I'd be happy to recommend you
Biological Graffity
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sure, I'll second that....
SickofPain
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I'll go along with that!
Bluejeans
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Oh yeah, and THAT'S going to happen. This stuff will keep in jars just fine till I get around to smoking it. I might give it to a PATIENT in need that I know has a legitimate need and inability to pay, but never to a dispensary.LOL, I had that already in a different folder in my comp. I found where it says can give to disp. or other caregiver if nothing of value is received in return. That just blows.
Thank you so much tet, really appreciated!
Peace!
Bluejeans
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Its your thread, right? (I mean you started it). Makes sense that you would be the mod. PM Kev and he'll tell ya how to make it happen.
maineyankee
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Central Maine Morning Sentinel
January 10, 2012
HALLOWELL
Wellness Connection of Maine plans an open house to mark the opening of its Hallowell facility today. It's one of three dispensaries being prepared for opening by Wellness Connection in the coming months. The others are in Portland and Brewer.
Wellness was called Northeast Patients Group until it changed its name last month.
Hallowell Mayor Charlotte Warren will be a guest speaker at today's opening.
Maine voters in 2009 approved a referendum that changed Maine's decade-old medical marijuana law by expanding the conditions under which people could be prescribed the drug to ease pain. The voter-approved law allows retail dispensaries where patients may legally buy marijuana with a doctor's prescription.
January 10, 2012
HALLOWELL
— A nonprofit company is opening a
medical marijuana dispensary in Hallowell.Wellness Connection of Maine plans an open house to mark the opening of its Hallowell facility today. It's one of three dispensaries being prepared for opening by Wellness Connection in the coming months. The others are in Portland and Brewer.
Wellness was called Northeast Patients Group until it changed its name last month.
Hallowell Mayor Charlotte Warren will be a guest speaker at today's opening.
Maine voters in 2009 approved a referendum that changed Maine's decade-old medical marijuana law by expanding the conditions under which people could be prescribed the drug to ease pain. The voter-approved law allows retail dispensaries where patients may legally buy marijuana with a doctor's prescription.
maineyankee
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Portland Press Herald
January 10, 2012
Medical marijuana is now legal in Maine and 16 other states, but areas not pleased by legal drug-dealing put up roadblocks.
n California, which has the nation's most permissivemedical marijuana laws, 185 cities and counties have banned pot dispensaries entirely. In New Jersey, perhaps the most restrictive of the 17 states that have legalized marijuana for sick people, some groups planning to sell cannabis are struggling to find local governments willing to let them in.
Dispensaries also have been banned in parts of Colorado and have run into opposition in some communities in Maine.
Local politicians have argued that pot is still illegal under federal law, that marijuana dispensaries bring crime, and that such businesses are just fronts for drug-dealing and supplying weed to people who aren't really sick.
Cities and towns are prohibiting dispensaries outright or applying zoning ordinances so strict that they amount to the same thing. The ordinances typically set minimum distances between such businesses and schools, homes, parks and houses of worship.
The township manager of Maple Shade, N.J., where the zoning board last year turned down an application for a dispensary at the vacant site of a former furniture store, said his town was just following zoning law. But Gary LaVenia said it is easy to see why people would be nervous about legal pot-dealing in their communities.
"People read the accounts of what's going on in the other states, like Colorado, like California," he said. "Regardless of the fact that use here is the most regulated, people still read those accounts and assume that that's what's going to happen here."
Medical marijuana advocates say the resistance is going to hurt people in desperate need of relief.
"It prevents patients with mobility issues from getting their medication," said Kris Hermes, a spokesman for Americans for Safe Access in Oakland, Calif. "It also pushes patients into the illicit market."
States such as California and Colorado have seen an explosion in the number of pot dispensaries, along with criticism that the rules are so lax that practically anyone can buy weed. Also, there have been cases of violence involving people trying to steal pot from dispensaries.
Local governments are within their rights to restrict or keep out pot businesses, said Lars Etzkorn, program director for the National League of Cities.
"Land-use and business regulation are the most fundamental decision-making that local officials are entrusted with," he said.
"Local communities, the local electorate, can decide what sort of level of regulation they want."But medical marijuana is particularly thorny, he said, because it can place mayors and town councils in an awkward position of deciding whether to follow federal law, which makes marijuana possession and use a crime, or state law. Several state laws that say pot is OK for medicinal purposes were passed by voters.
Advocates say the drug can relieve pain, nausea and other symptoms, especially in people with cancer, AIDS, glaucoma and multiple sclerosis.
Some states, including Oregon and Michigan, have legalized medical marijuana but not dispensaries. Patients are expected to grow their own or obtain it some other way.
In 1996, California voters made their state the first to legalize medical marijuana, and there are now an estimated 1,000 dispensaries around the state. A clarifying state law passed in 2003 left a lot of the specifics up to city and county governments, and many have relied on that measure to adopt their own regulations.
According to ASA's tally, 60 governments in California have rules for local dispensaries, often including where they can be located. Several, like San Diego, have zoning regulations so restrictive that they are effectively an outright ban, Hermes said.
In Los Angeles a little-enforced part of the local law bars pot sales within 1,000 feet of any home -- a measure that would ban dispensaries nearly everywhere.
The legality of several regulations and bans in California cities is being slugged out in court. But last year, a court found that the city of Riverside was within its right to prohibit any dispensaries.
Elsewhere around the country, Maine has amended its medical pot law to block towns from imposing tighter zoning restrictions than those included in state law.
In New Jersey, lawmakers made pot legal for patients with certain conditions in January 2010, but there is still no place where they can get it legally.
The state has authorized six nonprofit groups to grow and sell cannabis. So far, only one has announced that it has secured local approvals -- in Montclair, a liberal New York City suburb where no zoning hearing was required. Three others have been shut out of their chosen locations by local government bodies, despite assurances that security at the dispensaries would be tight and that pot would be given only to patients who are truly sick.
One of those communities, Upper Freehold Township, adopted an ordinance last month banning zoning approvals for any business purpose that defies federal law.
Andrei Bogolubov, spokesman for a group that was denied permission for a medical marijuana business in Maple Shade, N.J., said he is going to keep looking for a more welcoming town and realizes he is going to have work harder to change people's minds.
"Since this is new and there's a lot of misunderstanding out there, you've got to do more," he said.
January 10, 2012
Medical marijuana is now legal in Maine and 16 other states, but areas not pleased by legal drug-dealing put up roadblocks.
By GEOFF MULVIHILL/The Associated Press
More and more states are saying yes to
medical marijuana. But local governments are increasingly using their laws to just say no, not in our backyard.More and more states are saying yes to
n California, which has the nation's most permissivemedical marijuana laws, 185 cities and counties have banned pot dispensaries entirely. In New Jersey, perhaps the most restrictive of the 17 states that have legalized marijuana for sick people, some groups planning to sell cannabis are struggling to find local governments willing to let them in.
Dispensaries also have been banned in parts of Colorado and have run into opposition in some communities in Maine.
Local politicians have argued that pot is still illegal under federal law, that marijuana dispensaries bring crime, and that such businesses are just fronts for drug-dealing and supplying weed to people who aren't really sick.
Cities and towns are prohibiting dispensaries outright or applying zoning ordinances so strict that they amount to the same thing. The ordinances typically set minimum distances between such businesses and schools, homes, parks and houses of worship.
The township manager of Maple Shade, N.J., where the zoning board last year turned down an application for a dispensary at the vacant site of a former furniture store, said his town was just following zoning law. But Gary LaVenia said it is easy to see why people would be nervous about legal pot-dealing in their communities.
"People read the accounts of what's going on in the other states, like Colorado, like California," he said. "Regardless of the fact that use here is the most regulated, people still read those accounts and assume that that's what's going to happen here."
Medical marijuana advocates say the resistance is going to hurt people in desperate need of relief.
"It prevents patients with mobility issues from getting their medication," said Kris Hermes, a spokesman for Americans for Safe Access in Oakland, Calif. "It also pushes patients into the illicit market."
States such as California and Colorado have seen an explosion in the number of pot dispensaries, along with criticism that the rules are so lax that practically anyone can buy weed. Also, there have been cases of violence involving people trying to steal pot from dispensaries.
Local governments are within their rights to restrict or keep out pot businesses, said Lars Etzkorn, program director for the National League of Cities.
"Land-use and business regulation are the most fundamental decision-making that local officials are entrusted with," he said.
"Local communities, the local electorate, can decide what sort of level of regulation they want."But medical marijuana is particularly thorny, he said, because it can place mayors and town councils in an awkward position of deciding whether to follow federal law, which makes marijuana possession and use a crime, or state law. Several state laws that say pot is OK for medicinal purposes were passed by voters.
Advocates say the drug can relieve pain, nausea and other symptoms, especially in people with cancer, AIDS, glaucoma and multiple sclerosis.
Some states, including Oregon and Michigan, have legalized medical marijuana but not dispensaries. Patients are expected to grow their own or obtain it some other way.
In 1996, California voters made their state the first to legalize medical marijuana, and there are now an estimated 1,000 dispensaries around the state. A clarifying state law passed in 2003 left a lot of the specifics up to city and county governments, and many have relied on that measure to adopt their own regulations.
According to ASA's tally, 60 governments in California have rules for local dispensaries, often including where they can be located. Several, like San Diego, have zoning regulations so restrictive that they are effectively an outright ban, Hermes said.
In Los Angeles a little-enforced part of the local law bars pot sales within 1,000 feet of any home -- a measure that would ban dispensaries nearly everywhere.
The legality of several regulations and bans in California cities is being slugged out in court. But last year, a court found that the city of Riverside was within its right to prohibit any dispensaries.
Elsewhere around the country, Maine has amended its medical pot law to block towns from imposing tighter zoning restrictions than those included in state law.
In New Jersey, lawmakers made pot legal for patients with certain conditions in January 2010, but there is still no place where they can get it legally.
The state has authorized six nonprofit groups to grow and sell cannabis. So far, only one has announced that it has secured local approvals -- in Montclair, a liberal New York City suburb where no zoning hearing was required. Three others have been shut out of their chosen locations by local government bodies, despite assurances that security at the dispensaries would be tight and that pot would be given only to patients who are truly sick.
One of those communities, Upper Freehold Township, adopted an ordinance last month banning zoning approvals for any business purpose that defies federal law.
Andrei Bogolubov, spokesman for a group that was denied permission for a medical marijuana business in Maple Shade, N.J., said he is going to keep looking for a more welcoming town and realizes he is going to have work harder to change people's minds.
"Since this is new and there's a lot of misunderstanding out there, you've got to do more," he said.
nl3004.kind
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i'm always here, just not always talking... i'll make a sticky right now...
done and done, now populate it with awesome facts about maine's medical laws...
done and done, now populate it with awesome facts about maine's medical laws...
maineyankee
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WMTW - Channel 8 News
January 15, 2012
LEBANON, Maine --
January 15, 2012
LEBANON, Maine --
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the York County Sheriff's Department are investigating an incident at 25 Bigelow Road in Lebanon.Early Saturday morning, sheriff's deputies, along with Lebanon emergency crews were called to the house for a medical issue. Two people were treated at the scene for unknown medical problems.A York County Emergency Management command truck, along with investigators from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, were called to the scene, as well.Crews spent 13 hours there, according to Lebanon Assistant Fire Chief Jason Cole.Authorities have not yet released the reason behind the medical call or the investigation.News 8 and WMTW.com will have updates as they become available.
Read more: http://www.wmtw.com/news/30216843/detail.html#ixzz1jWnAGUv0
Read more: http://www.wmtw.com/news/30216843/detail.html#ixzz1jWnAGUv0
maineyankee
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WMTW - Channel 8 News
January 14, 2012
LEBANON, Maine --
January 14, 2012
LEBANON, Maine --
Members of the York County Sheriff's Office and the state police searched the area around a Kennebec Drive home in Lebanon after a Friday afternoon home invasion.A woman in the home saw a man walk up to her door and she unlocked it as she was looking into the peephole, Major William L. King Jr. of the sheriff's office said in a release. A man with a stocking mask pulled over his face and armed with a handgun forced his way inside once the door was unlocked.He demanded drugs, even though the woman said the house had none, King said. The man searched the house and the woman fled when he was distracted.The woman said the intruder fled in the direction of Comanche Lane, King said. She was not injured in the incident, which she reported around 2:30 p.m.King said the man was described as white, between 20 to 30 years of age, with a slim build and wearing jeans and a jean jacket. The mask was a white, knit stocking with two eyes holes cut out of it.
Read more: http://www.wmtw.com/news/30210493/detail.html#ixzz1jWnc7hSq
Read more: http://www.wmtw.com/news/30210493/detail.html#ixzz1jWnc7hSq
maineyankee
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For such a little town in Maine, I would bet that these are related. And this happened yesterday here in Waterville ....
Morning Sentinel
January 15, 2012
Morning Sentinel
January 15, 2012
WATERVILLE — Police officers with their guns drawn arrested three men Saturday afternoon in the parking lot of a Home Depot store.A total of 14 officers from five agencies took part in the arrests in front of shoppers at the plaza on Waterville Commons Drive just after 2 p.m., according to Deputy Police Chief Charles Rumsey.The men were outside Home Depot when several armed detectives in plain clothes surrounded them, taking the men into custody within a matter of seconds, Rumsey said.Two of the men were still in the parked car and the third was walking nearby when the detectives swarmed the trio, he said.“They were ordered to the ground, they were placed under arrest and no one was injured,” Rumsey said.Rumsey would not release the names of the men or the charges they face.Two firearms that police believe had been stolen were seized during the arrest, and the vehicle was towed from the parking lot. Rumsey would not say what kind of firearms the men had.Rumsey said details are being withheld to avoid compromising an investigation that could result in more arrests. He said more details may be released in a couple days.The arrests of the three men Saturday is part of an investigation that has been going on for more than a week, Rumsey said.A total of 14 law enforcement officers from several agencies participated in the arrest, which was made by Waterville city police detectives, Rumsey said. Maine State Police, Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office and town police departments from Fairfield and Oakland assisted, he said.
A lot of happenings here in Maine that are not favorable at all ... Just saying ....
Bob ~ The MaineYankee
A lot of happenings here in Maine that are not favorable at all ... Just saying ....
Bob ~ The MaineYankee
SickofPain
Member
Exactly what I was thinking
Maine Brookies
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Nice profile piece on MaineYankee's friend who had his legs amputated after being injured trying to assist in a car accident the he came upon.
http://www.kjonline.com/news/horrible-accident-for-vet-who-survived-war_2012-02-12.html
http://www.kjonline.com/news/horrible-accident-for-vet-who-survived-war_2012-02-12.html
maineyankee
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Thanks MB for the link. He is quite a guy to say the very least. I think we all can learn from him. Quite a young man
tet1953
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Standish family held at gunpoint for drugs
I won't post the whole story here but here's a link to the Press Herald:
http://www.pressherald.com/news/standish-family-is-held-at-gunpoint_2012-03-17.html
Scary. These guys posed as DEA/LEO with outfits and all.
lol they guy in the second photo is smoking somethin' I'm sure it's not a joint but he smokes like it is
I won't post the whole story here but here's a link to the Press Herald:
http://www.pressherald.com/news/standish-family-is-held-at-gunpoint_2012-03-17.html
Scary. These guys posed as DEA/LEO with outfits and all.
lol they guy in the second photo is smoking somethin' I'm sure it's not a joint but he smokes like it is