This November, Maine voters will have the chance to make Maine’s current medical marijuana law work. The law was first passed by voters back in 1999, but was not particularly well written. The result is that over the last ten years, only a handful of qualified Maine patients have been able to legally access their medicine.
Our organization, Maine Citizens for Patients Rights, filed our proposed ballot initiative with the Maine Secretary of State back in October of 2007, and then began the long process of collecting over 80,000 signatures from registered voters. In January of 2009 we turned in these signatures and received our not....