Maine wants the state’s medical and adult-use cannabis businesses to have the same rules whenever possible, but small operators say that would drive up prices and put them out of business.
Penelope Overton
Staff Writer
Penny Overton is excited to be the Portland Press Herald’s first climate reporter. Since joining the paper in 2016, she has written about Maine’s lobster and cannabis industries, covered state politics and spent a fellowship year exploring the impact of climate change on the lobster fishery with the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team. Before moving to Maine, she has covered politics, environment, casino gambling and tribal issues in Florida, Connecticut, and Arizona. Her favorite assignments allow her to introduce readers to unusual people, cultures, or subjects. When off the clock, Penny is usually getting lost in a new book at a local coffeehouse, watching foreign crime shows or planning her family’s next adventure.
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State’s plan for special cannabis crimes unit sparks outrage
Marijuana advocates see the proposal for a 4-person division of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency to investigate marijuana crimes as an effort to outlaw the drug again.
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State’s medical marijuana market much larger than previously known
The $111.6 million market is twice as big as previously thought and is exceeded in value only by the lobster and potato industries.
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State’s medical marijuana market much bigger than anyone realized
The $111.6 million market is twice as large as previously thought and is exceeded in value only by the lobster and potato industries.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
State reverses course, leaves menhaden fishery open
Maine will create a commercial menhaden fishing license in 2021, but it won’t close the growing bait fishery as previously planned.
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Maine says its plan to protect whales from lobster gear is better than feds think
Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher says the National Marine Fisheries Service didn’t give the state’s plan credit for all of its whale protections.
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Maine’s plan to protect whales falls short, regulators say, raising prospect of federal rules
The National Marine Fisheries Service says the state’s proposal to keep endangered right whales from getting entangled in lobstering gear doesn’t go far enough.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, Maine Cannabis Report
Bill calling for secrecy in marijuana industry divides cannabis community
The industry is split over efforts to keep marijuana license details secret, but opposes a bill that would drive up the price of edibles, salves and tinctures.
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Bill would drape secrecy over recreational cannabis
Maine wants to exempt trade secrets, security and operating procedures of adult-use marijuana businesses from the state public records law.
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Maine contracts with Florida company to track its marijuana
The contractor, Metrc LLC of Florida, tracks 12 other state marijuana industries, plus Washington, D.C.