Maine has a new Medical Marijuana pilot program

Maine has a new Pilot Program for Medical Marijuana Patients and Caregivers!


Maine passed its version of the Medical Marijuana Act back in 1999. It was obviously fashioned after California’s Proposition 215. The similarities end there.

Over the past five years California activists have started a score of pilot programs all meant to test, strengthen, and evolve the laws governing Medical Marijuana. While back here in Maine there has been a loud sucking sound as the groups who pushed the Medical Marijuana Act in 1999 like ‘Mainers for Medical Rights’ apparently left our state.

Its great to see a pilot program finally started here in Maine. The group ‘Maine Compassionate Cannabis Coalition’

http://frankweed.freespaces.com/

has just been founded and is hoping to help Maine Patients and Caregivers with there Medical Marijuana needs.

Check out there forums for Maine Medical Marijuana news and events as they occur! Join there membership to show your support!

http://www.phpbbplanet.com/forum/mccc.html

It’s a pilot program, its all new, and its evolving as we speak. So give them all the support you can. Its all about the Medical Patients!

-Frank Weed
http://frankweed.blogspot.com/

 

That's great, but it's a moot point. The Federal Gov't banned medical mj a few months ago. Even if your state wants to allow it, they can't. Hopefully this will be appealed, but in the meantime, there's not much the states can do.

 

the government didn't ban medical marijuana "a few months ago," it banned it back in 1970 with the passage of the controlled substances act and introduction of the scheduling system. marijuana is schedule I federally, meaning that in the entire united states marijuana has no recognized medical use, a high potential for abuse, and no demonstrated safety for use even under medical supervision. for over 100 years federal law has taken precedent over state laws, and it is not recognized as an issue of states rights. however, a state CAN legalize medical marijuana within its borders, even if that only means that the STATE government will not interfere. states can and do operate medical marijuana programs even though it may be illegal on a national level. it simply means that if the federal government wants to interfere, conduct raids, shut down growing/distribution operations, etc. it can. though the california program is still working (as far as i know) some farms and cannabis clubs and such HAVE been raided by the federal government.

states keep pushing for the right to allow their citizens to use marijuana for medical purposes, though, and if enough states legalize medical mj and keep running their programs despite federal interference, it means theres a good likelihood that the programs are gaining public support and ultimately it may mean that the federal government will be forced by public opinion to recognize it as an issue of states rights and stop interfering, and perhaps even to change marijuana to schedule II or III or lower, allowing legal medical use nationwide. personally, i think if we are going to keep the asanine scheduling system the way it is, marijuana should be moved far down the scheduling system nationwide. this will allow states that do not approve of medical marijuana to keep it at schedule I -within the state- without having to encroach upon another state's rights to allow its citizens to use marijuana medically.

 

Actually there are around 150 various programs that have been started in California, and only a handfull have been busted, and mostly because they were growing more weed than they had patients for. or they were selling the weed for a profit.

This is what I have heard anyway.

Thanks for the input guys!