While most of us our busy dealing with school, families, work and the pandemic’s effects on all of those things, marijuana and alcohol retailers are busy creating new legislation so that Mainers can get easier access to their products.
If you would like to learn how to prevent youth marijuana use in Maine, you can check out this guide from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. It explains why selling or providing marijuana (or alcohol, tobacco or other legal drugs) in community settings is not a good way to prevent youth use.
Find out what’s going on in Augusta around all sorts of issues.
And you can contact your legislator to let them know how you feel.
You can also submit your opinion in writing to the legislature. The Maine Public Health Association can help you learn how to communicate with the legislature here.
New and Noteworthy
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- Colorado Marijuana Report 2020 Read the latest Colorado Marijuana Report and the impact its having on the state
- CTBH Annual Meeting, June 2019 – “Marijuana: What Does the Data Say? “a presentation on marijuana, mental health and Maine given by Dr. Elinore McCance-Katz.
- Legalized Marijuana-Public Health Concerns and Regulation Best Practices
- Marijuana in Maine: What’s Legal And What’s Not a downloadable handout from the Good To Know campaign with easy to understand information about Maine’s marijuana laws.
- Good To Know Maine, state website with info for general public, visitors, parents, info on laws
- The Financial Costs of Legalization, a report from RI
- The Impact of Marijuana Legalization on You Tube
Health Impacts
- Using the Public Health Model to Regulate Marijuana
- Environmental impacts of marijuana farming, this Scientific American article highlights that farming has negative effects on water and fish in particular
- Regulating Marijuana and Using a Public Health Model
- Executive Summary from Colorado HIDTA: Youth Use is Up
Public Safety Impacts
- Legalized Marijuana Practical Guide for Law Enforcement from Colorado
- What Will Legal Marijuana Cost Employers?
- Maine Tobacco Law
Resources from Maine and Other States
- Good To Know Maine, state website with info for general public, visitors, parents, info on laws
- Smart Approaches to Marijuana
a national reform group that does not support recreational legalization - The Marijuana Report, newsletter and website
- The Legalization of Marijuana: The Impact is the 2018 update of the annual report from the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area in Colorado.
- Concerning Trends of Marijuana Commercialization in Colorado, a presentation by Bob Doyle of the Colorado Tobacco Education and Prevention Alliance.