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Maine Marijuana News

August 30, 2013
Obama administration: States can have their pot and smoke it too, by Ryan Vogt, Slate, Bangor Daily News - ...Today Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole sent a memo to the attorneys general of all 50 states, declaring a cease-fire over state laws legalizing medical and recreational use of marijuana....

June 30, 2013
PTSD added to list of qualifying conditions for medical marijuana treatment, by Beth Brogen, Bangor Daily News, Augusta, Maine - A bill adding post-traumatic stress disorder as a qualifying condition for the prescription of medical marijuana quietly became law...

May 2, 2013
Hearing on bill to legalize marijuana for recreational use set for Friday, by Robert Long, Bangor Daily News, Augusta, Maine - A bill to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, taxing and regulating it like alcohol, will receive a public hearing at 10 a.m. Friday before the Legislature’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee...

April 20, 2013
As Maine and other states look to legalize marijuana, funding cuts cloud medical research, by Elizabeth Lopatto, Bloomberg News, San Francisco, CA - As more states embrace legalized marijuana, the drug’s growing medicinal use has highlighted a disturbing fact for doctors: scant research exists to support marijuana’s health benefits...

Nationwide Marijuana News  

May 9, 2013
Colorado legislature votes to tax recreational marijuana by Keith Coffman, Reuter, Denver, CO - The Colorado legislature passed and sent to the governor on Wednesday a bill to establish what would be the first tax ever collected on commercial sales of marijuana purchased for recreational use in the United States...

May 7, 2013

Colorado legislature sets marijuana limits for motorists by Keith Coffman, Reuters, Denver, CO - Lawmakers took a key step toward implementing Colorado's recreational marijuana law on Tuesday when they set blood-level limits for driving...

May 1, 2013
Medical marijuana to be OK in Maryland, USA Today, Annapolis, MD -  Maryland will become the 19th state to approve a medical marijuana program, but it's unclear when one will be up and running...