The Maine Attorney General’s Task Force on Medical Marijuana submitted its final report Wednesday, outlining three proposals to further implement the state’s medical marijuana law which was approved by voters last year. The report will now go to the Maine Legislature’s Joint Standing Committees on Health and Human Services and Criminal Justice.
Proposal one called for a research program to study the medical benefits of cannabinoids found in marijuana. Proposal two called for establishing a medical marijuana patient registry and to allow registered patients to furnish marijuana to one other registered patient. The final proposal called for establishing a state marijuana distribution center.
Sixteen of the 29 members of the task force supported the state-run distribution center, including the Maine Chiefs of Police Association and the Maine Sheriffs’ Association.
Mark Westrum, the sheriff of Sagadahoc County and president of the sheriffs’ association, said he and his association “are keenly aware that our position doesn’t sit well with the commissioner of public safety or the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, but we represent a large constituency ourselves, and we are in touch with the people of our counties.”
Elizabeth Beane, director of Mainers for Medical Rights, the organization which sponsored the 1999 state medical marijuana initiative said the group supports establishing state marijuana distribution center.
For more information, please contact Mainers For Medical Rights at (207)780-0704.
