Portland Daily Sun, 14 Aug 2012 – A legislator who championed amendments to Maine’s medical marijuana law as a way to bring it in line with voter intent said she hopes the state doesn’t make the same mistakes again. After a public hearing Monday on a controversial rule making that’s now underway, Rep. Deb Sanderson, R-Chelsea, said the state should not implement rules that are more restrictive and divergent from the intent of the citizen’s initiative legalizing medical marijuana passed in 2009.
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US ME: New Medical Marijuana Rules Criticized As Burdensome, Self-defeating
Morning Sentinel, 14 Aug 2012 – AUGUSTA — Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1995, Falmouth resident Kelly Irwin found that marijuana worked better to treat her pain, fatigue and nausea far better than the opiates she was prescribed. Irwin has successfully grown her own medical marijuana, but she worries she won’t be able to do that anymore if legislators approve new regulations on cultivation.
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US ME: New Rules Unreasonable for Growing Medical Marijuana
Bangor Daily News, 13 Aug 2012 – NEW RULES UNREASONABLE FOR GROWING MEDICAL MARIJUANA AUGUSTA, Maine – Patients who use medical marijuana and their caregivers said Monday that new rules proposed for Maine’s medical marijuana program could make it too expensive to grow a plant many depend on to manage pain, nausea and other chronic conditions.
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US ME: OPED: Medical Marijuana Program Faces Uncertainty From New
Morning Sentinel, 09 Aug 2012 – Imagine that you have Crohn’s disease, terminal cancer or chronic pain from a serious car accident. You’ve tried all the drugs out there, but they make you nauseated, withdrawn or cause severe headaches. When you try to stop taking them, you feel anxious and crampy and can’t sleep. You’re scared because friends have gotten hooked on some of these drugs, and you know someone who died from an overdose.
