Showing posts with label cannabis law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cannabis law. Show all posts

Adult-use Rulemaking Is Underway in Maine – This Is Your Chance to Comment

Monday, May 13, 2019

After releasing pre-draft proposed rules for unofficial comment to gauge the initial reaction of the public, Maine's Office of Marijuana Policy (OMP) has now released the official no-longer-in-draft-form proposed rules for real comment. In other words, rulemaking has begun. With a public hearing scheduled for May 23 in Portland, and all public comment due by 5:00 pm on Sunday, June 2, perhaps we can expect rulemaking to be complete and these major substantive rules to be back in front of the Maine Legislature for approval sometime in June, during this session?

The OMP has conveniently posted all of the unofficial comments received in response to the draft rules, and their responses, online here. This provides some interesting insights, and some very predictable ones, into what the different stakeholders care about, and how the State plans to deal with these concerns. Also, kudos to the OMP for using Google Docs – very practical and mainstream for government!

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Welcome to the Cannabis Law and Policy Update! You can expect updates and commentary on a potpourri of marijuana and hemp happenings at the state and federal level. We will be primarily focused on the law (since we’re lawyers), but in the broadest sense. Think everything from court decisions to legislation to regulation to enforcement, with our reactions and some practical advice sprinkled throughout.

At the moment, every week seems to bring some significant development in the world of cannabis law and policy. Maine’s rulemaking process for adult use marijuana is heating up, which means that a (legal) adult use industry is just around the corner; the legality of hemp and CBD is a complete rollercoaster ride; the Legislature is continuing to fix and tinker with Maine’s medical and adult use marijuana laws; and the feds remain curmudgeons all around. We’ll be hitting on specific angles in this arena all the time, so check back frequently and subscribe.