Maine Vote's to Legalize Recreational Marijuana; What is the future of the Caregiver Cottage Industry?

     In Maine, voters turned out and narrowly passed a bill to Regulate and tax Marijuana like alcohol. That sounds fantastic does it not?    Maine is a model for progressive non-government and municipality interference.

     The Medical Marijuana program which began in 2001 in Maine, was a Grass Roots from the bottom up initiative, by Mainers, to create high quality medical cannabis for their patients in need. The legislation was fought off by the state, and slowed down, and almost not allowed to begin in the first place. When Medical Marijuana was passed, the Caregiver Program was created as a cottage industry to regulate legal medical grows, and provide supervision and licensing through the Department of Health and Human Services.

      It is the Caregivers, who are and have to be resident Mainers, that are to be congratulated for the success of the burgeoning industry, and its acceptance in a very conservative state. With the success of the program combined with more understanding since 2011, the state woke up to the fact that Marijuana is here to stay. Regulating Marijuana Like Alcohol is a fabulous idea,    so long as there is protectionism in place to continue to licence quality Caregivers to stay in the field and produce high level Boutique Pot, just as a Home Brewery is allowed to produce and bring to market its beer.

     We have no problem with the Walmarts of the world trying to finagle (bribe) their way into the Maine Marijuana program through excessive licensing fees that they declare themselves, in a planned attempt to prohibit "the little guy and keep the riff raft out." One just needs to remember that as the Walmart "commercial" growers get their claws into the program, quality goes down. So does accountability from the top, as these firms owners and monetary funders ( Like George Sorros and other out of state venture capitalists) are not in touch with the grow themselves at all.

    Let the Walmarts join. OK. Recreational Pot is here to stay. But allow the small time Grass Root Caregivers to bring their quality medicine to market, through a well regulated dispensary program that purchases and taxes excess Marijuana grown from the Medical Marijuana program. What do the Walmarts risk from allowing currently regulated Mom and Pop Marijuana Budderies to exist?
 

   
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