Maine Craft Cannabis Association

The Maine Craft Cannabis Association

The Maine Craft Cannabis Association, Legalize Maine, Compassionate Caregivers of Maine and allied small Maine cannabis businesses have formed a coalition to promote common-sense regulation of cannabis in Maine. We support an authentic and sustainable craft cannabis industry to preserve and grow Maine’s deep, long-standing cannabis culture. Our vision and goals encompass the medical and adult-use industries as well as the cultivation and sale of hemp cannabis in Maine.

Giving Back

Giving back to the community and medical cannabis patients is very important to Us. Examples of groups are:

Donate to groups using Cannabis to transition off opiates
RSO donation non-profit for patients with cancer
Music and event fundraisers
New England Veterans Alliance

What We’re Fighting For

Supporting small, local businesses

Small businesses bring benefits beyond economic opportunity—they create choice and access for patients and consumers, keep dollars at home, nurture community, and foster and preserve local job creation.

Protecting access for patients

The beginning of adult-use sales does not mean the end of the medical marijuana program, nor should it. While some overlap is logical, medical marijuana policy should be evaluated separately and with a focus on ensuring privacy, access and safety for Maine patients.

Environmental sustainability

Nowhere is marijuana regulation more out of sync than with packaging. Treating marijuana like deadly poison does not serve the goal of public health goal and it imperils our planet with needless single-use plastic and other unrecyclable materials.

Social justice

We have a responsibility to develop a just and fair industry, including recognizing and addressing the cost to those who laid the foundation. Marijuana convictions should not create barriers to licensing and marijuana convictions should be sealed, releasing people from the stigma and negative life outcomes for behavior that is now legal.

Destigmatization

Regulating marijuana like a highly dangerous substance requiring more safeguards than even alcohol or tobacco does not improve public health or consumer safety, nor does it build a culture of moderation. Our cannabis stores should not feel like prisons, and our marijuana doesn’t need to look like pharmaceuticals.

Freedom for hemp

Cannabis containing minimal amounts of THC is not ‘marijuana’ and should not be treated as such. We must protect hemp from being pulled under the umbrella of marijuana regulation. Maine law and regulations now support farmers’ ability to cultivate and process this incredible plant and provide it to Maine people. We must fight new USDA rules that could undermine our small, local hemp farmers.

Consumer privacy

While Maine has legalized marijuana, our federal government has not. It continues to be listed, along with heroin, among the most dangerous drugs. It is therefore crucial that the state-compliant choices of Maine marijuana businesses, consumers and medical patients be kept private.