Sorry about the Short Notice!
Sen. Joseph Brannigan has introduced LD 1811 “An Act to Amend the Maine Medical Marijuana Act” — a bill which finally sets the stage for the establishment of medical marijuana dispensaries in Maine!
The legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee will hold a public hearing on the bill on Thursday, March 11 at 1:00 PM in room 209 in the Cross Building. Any Maine resident may testify.
The bill is great as it is — it will be even better if it can be amended to allow caregivers to give or sell any excess marijuana to dispensaries. As the bill is written, caregivers would have to turn any excess marijuana over to law enforcement to be destroyed, wasting good medicine.
What can you do?
- Come to Augusta on March 11 at 1:00 PM in room 209 and testify in support of the bill and our proposed amendment. ANY MAINE RESIDENT MAY TESTIFY.
- Call the members of the Health and Human Services Committee and urge them to amend the bill to allow caregivers to give or sell any excess marijuana to dispensaries and then vote “ought to pass.”
The members of the committee are:
Senator Joseph C. Brannigan (D-Cumberland) — 207-772-6047
Senator Lisa T. Marraché (D-Kennebec) — 207-861-0154
Senator Peter Mills (R-Somerset) — 207-474-3821
Representative Anne C. Perry (D-Calais) — 207-454-7338
Representative Patricia Jones (D-Mount Vernon) — 207-512-5102
Representative Mark Eves (D-North Berwick) — 207-676-1001
Representative Matthew J. Peterson (D-Rumford) — 207-776-8051
Representative Linda F. Sanborn (D-Gorham) — 207-839-4664
Representative Peter C. Stuckey (D-Portland) — 207-773-3345
Representative Sarah O. Lewin (R-Eliot) — 207-439-0354
Representative Henry L. Joy (R-Crystal) — 207-463-2507
Representative Meredith N. Strang Burgess (R-Cumberland) — 207-829-6264
Representative James J. Campbell, Sr. (U-Newfield) — 207-793-2396
Representative Donald G. Soctomah (Passamaquoddy Tribe) — 207-214-4051
