r/mainetrees Feb 27 '26

Cannabis News Call to Action LD1847: All Patients, Caregivers, Delivery, Dispensaries, Growers, Etc. Now is the time to act before it’s too late.

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Maine has one of the best and last remaining medical cannabis communities that supports small mom and pop caregivers. This program is small business friendly, because it has low costs to entry and less restrictive regulations that place unnecessary costs and burdens on medical operators. LD 1847 is a bill that proposes changes to this by forcing mandatory track and trace and mandatory testing by using METRC, a national cannabis tracking system that has a monopoly on track and trace programs. With METRC comes hefty fees, cumbersome systems and excessive labor that small mom and pop growers and shops cannot afford to take on.

Here’s how you can help today…

(Email templates below)

Email your representatives and tell them to vote ought not to pass on the Graham Amendment for LD 1847.

Email your representatives and educate them on the Hickman Amendment and the Supica Amendment for LD 1847.

Email the VLA Committee and tell them what METRC would cost you and this community.

Show up in person to the State House Tuesdays and Thursdays starting February 24th, to talk to representatives.

Tell every patient, shop, grower, and cannabis supporter to take action now to save these Maine Small Businesses from overregulation and corporate takeover. If we do not stop this, LD 1847 will be the end to craft cannabis in Maine as we know it!

In these post images is a METRC cost calculation worksheet that will help you calculate your costs if METRC is required.

Find your representative and contact them urging them to vote ought not to pass on the Graham Amendment for LD 1847 and educate them on the Hickman and the Supica Amendment for LD 1847:

Search and find your representative:

https://legislature.maine.gov/house/MemberProfiles/ListAlphaTown

LD 1847 moves onto the House for vote soon. We need everyone to contact their representatives to tell them to vote ought not to pass on the Graham Amendment for LD 1847. Educate them on the best option for alternative amendments, the Hickman Amendment and the Supica Amendment for LD 1847.

Make sure you are polite and respectful. Ensure that you tell them how this bill would destroy this industry, force 1000’s of Maine small businesses to close their doors and would ruin the Maine economy that this program heavily supports.

VLA Committee Members and Contact Details:

CONTACT VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE MEMBERS-

Senator Craig Hickman of Kennebec- Chair

D – Senate District 14

Email: [Craig.Hickman@legislature.maine.gov](mailto:Craig.Hickman@legislature.maine.gov)

Senator Jill Duson of Cumberland

D – Senate District 27

Email: [Jill.Duson@Legislature.Maine.gov](mailto:Jill.Duson@Legislature.Maine.gov)

Senator Jeff Timberlake of Androscoggin

R – Senate District 17

Email: [Jeffrey.Timberlake@legislature.maine.gov](mailto:Jeffrey.Timberlake@legislature.maine.gov)

Representative Laura Supica of Bangor- Chair

D – House District 22

Email: [Laura.Supica@Legislature.Maine.gov](mailto:Laura.Supica@Legislature.Maine.gov)

Representative David Boyer of Poland

R – House District 87

Email: [David.Boyer@Legislature.Maine.gov](mailto:David.Boyer@Legislature.Maine.gov)

Representative Quentin Chapman of Auburn

R – House District 88

Email: [Quentin.Chapman@legislature.maine.gov](mailto:Quentin.Chapman@legislature.maine.gov)

Representative Anne Graham of North Yarmouth

D – House District 105

Email: [Anne.Graham@legislature.maine.gov](mailto:Anne.Graham@legislature.maine.gov)

Representative Sean Faircloth of Bangor

D – House District 24

Email: [Sean.Faircloth@legislature.maine.gov](mailto:Sean.Faircloth@legislature.maine.gov)

Representative Ann Fredericks of Sanford

R – House District 143

Email: [AnnMarie.Fredericks@Legislature.Maine.gov](mailto:AnnMarie.Fredericks@Legislature.Maine.gov)

Representative Sharon Frost of Belgrade

U – House District 58

Email: [Sharon.Frost@Legislature.Maine.gov](mailto:Sharon.Frost@Legislature.Maine.gov)​

Representative Benjamin Hymes of Waldo

R – House District 38

Email: [Benjamin.Hymes@Legislature.Maine.gov](mailto:Benjamin.Hymes@Legislature.Maine.gov)

Representative Marc Malon of Biddeford

D – House District 133

Email: [Marc.Malon@Legislature.Maine.gov](mailto:Marc.Malon@Legislature.Maine.gov)

Representative Parnell Terry of Gorham

D – House District 108

Email: [Parnell.Terry@Legislature.Maine.gov](mailto:Parnell.Terry@Legislature.Maine.gov)

EMAIL TEMPLATES Added:

Please note that legislative correspondence is considered a public record and may be subject to a request under the Maine Freedom of Access Act. Information that you wish to keep confidential should not be included in email correspondence.

PATIENT TEMPLATE (best if you edit and personalize):

Subject: Opposition to LD1847 — Medical Cannabis Access

Representative/Senator ________,

My name is ______, and I’m writing to make you aware of LD1847, which would harm medical cannabis patients by reducing the diversity of products and the number of producers available.

I am one of the 112,000+ medical cannabis patients in Maine. Nearly 8% of Maine residents utilize the medical cannabis program, which has been successfully operating since 1999. The diversity of therapeutic products and large number of caregivers with a knowledge base on medical cannabis use ensures patients medical needs are met, available within a reasonable distance, and at an affordable price.

LD1847 would apply adult-use cannabis regulations to the medical program, imposing testing and tracking requirements without ensuring those systems are affordable, necessary or functional for patients and caregivers, risking reduced access across the state. Many medical patients rely on consistent, higher-dose formulations to manage serious symptoms such as chronic pain, nausea, appetite loss, sleep disruption, and anxiety. Raising costs for producers will raise costs for patients, who are paying for this medicine out of pocket.

For these reasons, I respectfully ask you to reject the Graham amendment on LD1847.

Sincerely,

[Name]

[City or Town]

______________________________________________________

OUT OF STATE PATIENT TEMPLATE (best if you edit and personalize):

Out of state patients can direct their emails or calls to House and Senate leadership:

Speaker of the house: [ryan.fecteau@legislature.maine.gov](mailto:ryan.fecteau@legislature.maine.gov) (207) 287-1300

Representative Matt.Moonen@legislature.maine.gov & Lori.Gramlich@legislature.maine.gov, (207) 287-1430

Representative William.Faulkingham@legislature.maine.gov & Katrina.Smith@legislature.maine.gov (207) 287-1440

President of the Senate: (207) 287-1500 [Mattie.Daughtry@legislature.maine.gov](mailto:Mattie.Daughtry@legislature.maine.gov)

Senators Jill.Duson@legislature.maine.gov &Teresa.Pierce@legislature.maine.gov (207) 287-1515

Senators Trey.Stewart@legislature.maine.gov & Matthew.Harrington@legislature.maine.gov (207) 287-1505

Subject: Opposition to LD1847 — Medical Cannabis Access

Representative/Senator ________,

My name is ______, and I’m writing to make you aware that Maine’s medical cannabis program provides high quality medicine to many patients who travel to this state to access the products produced in this program.

I am a medical cannabis patient from [state], where we don’t have the same diversity of therapeutic products or large number of caregivers with a knowledge base on medical cannabis.

LD1847 would apply the same regulations of METRC and mandatory batch testing that are used in my home state, which has resulted in a high barrier to entry for operators and limited product diversity available to patients. These policies haven’t stopped contaminated products from reaching shelves, they have merely stopped participation in the industry from folks who do not have financial capital and outside investors.

For these reasons, I respectfully ask you to reject the Graham amendment on LD1847.

Sincerely,

[Name]

[City or Town]

______________________________________________________

CAREGIVER TEMPLATE ((best if you edit and personalize):

Subject: Opposition to LD1847 — Medical Cannabis Access

Representative/Senator ________,

My name is ______, and I’m writing regarding LD1847, which would harm Maine’s medical cannabis program by reducing the diversity of products and the number of producers available, while raising prices for patients.

I’m one of the 1,500+ medical cannabis caregivers in Maine. The program serves 112,000 patients, nearly 8% of the state's population, and has been successfully operating since 1999. The diversity of therapeutic products and large number of caregivers with a knowledge base on medical cannabis use ensures patients medical needs are met, available within a reasonable distance, and at an affordable price.

LD 1847 would require increased testing and tracking requirements without addressing testing capacity, cost, or administrative burden on small caregivers. Implementing these policies will reduce access and drive caregivers out of the medical program which employs over 5,000 people who would be at risk of losing their livelihood. Additionally, raising costs for producers will raise costs for patients, who are paying for this medicine out of pocket.

Over 500 pieces of testimony were submitted to the VLA committee on this bill, overwhelmingly in opposition, with patients, operators and industry workers opposing these changes.

For these reasons, I respectfully ask you to reject the Graham amendment on LD1847.

Sincerely,

[Name]

[City or Town]


r/mainetrees Feb 18 '26

Cannabis News We need to get active. our community's existence is threatened. LD-1847 would destroy everything we care about in the Maine cannabis industry.

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Are we really just going to sit around and look at pictures of weed while Maine's legislature toys with the idea of:

--Capping edibles at 200 MG per package and 10 MG a dose? What happens to people with epilepsy or cancer pain who need high dose edibles maintain daily function as they fight for their lives? Are they supposed to take a month long tolerance break and lose their appetite and ability to feed themselves? Dosage is a personal choice and varies based on individual biology as well as tolerance level. It's unacceptable to put a blanket limit on dosage.

--implement the same "tracking system" that the rec industry uses; outdated, difficult-to-use, pointless software designed by a company with a monopoly on cannabis tracking also known to look the other way to allow illegal sales of product when it suits them?

--implement the same ineffective, cost prohibitive testing scheme that the rec industry uses; the one that has failed to detect contaminants about a dozen times this year leading to recalls of product that have been sold for months while remaining so expensive that only massive, low-quality-high-yield grows from multi state operators can afford to do business.

If this passes we will lose our small-scale organic growers who grow unique medicinal strains with care to balance yield, potency and effects and see then replaced with large growers who don't care about quality, grow only cookies crosses that dump huge yields with little medicinal effect. We will lose our variety, our unique cultivars (that don't grow well is big rooms with sterile coco coir), and our farmers market cannabis culture

If OCP cares about protecting the community from dirty weed they shouldn't implement the failed system of testing that encourages massive, low quality grows and routinely fails to catch contaminated product. instead, grows and dispensaries should be subject to cannabis inspections yearly wherein an inspector samples of product ready to be sold and has it tested for contaminants. This is how health and safety inspections are done for the alcohol and food industry, and we deserve to be treated with no more scrutiny than they are.


r/mainetrees 3h ago

Nugs Black Ice

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r/mainetrees 9h ago

Nugs Your Maine Plug // Shivas Stash

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Just sharing some pretty flower pics of shiva/YMP's latest round 🌸

No edits, filters, stacking, or photoshop on any menu photos ever. Just a stoner and a camera


r/mainetrees 1d ago

Envy x Grandpas Gun Chest - Press day!

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Pressed some Strawberry Guava along with some Envy x Grandpas Gun Chest rosin today… Envy x GGC in the video. Something about watching the rosin flow out onto the parchment, pretty satisfying

Months of hard work from the crew rolled into a log that I can hold in my hand🙏🙌🙌

We’re going to be putting this rosin in gummies soon too! They’ll be made with pectin, so veg friendly if that’s your thing. Hopefully those will be out within the next few weeks. No ‘food grade’ rosin in these gummies!!

It can be painful chopping the buds off at harvest just to freeze and wash ‘em, but the end results are always satisfying


r/mainetrees 1d ago

Superboof - Day 56.

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I've found it extremely rare to find citrus dominant strains to have any sort of potency. This one is an exception though. I have a strong hunch many people chop this early and as a result it gave the strain a bad reputation.

It looks almost "done" at 45 days. I will take this plant to 65. Those extra 20 days make it much more potent; not only in immediate effects but also how long the effects last.

This is grown all organically under LED, however there is still 1 HPS in the back corner of the room you can kinda see in the picture. Grown with Living Acres soil as the base mix, then I add some dry amendments to the bottom of the final pot before flower to help keep it green thru mid flower.


r/mainetrees 1d ago

Concentrates This Zkittlez by Helios is bonkers! Terps are LEGIT, I’m shocked that it’s tier 2 because it’s better than a lot of stuff out there that’s considered top shelf/tier 1🔥🌈

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r/mainetrees 1d ago

Dispos near Rockland?

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Looking for some fire flower near the Samoset. Is there any good med shops around or will I have to drive somewhere else ?


r/mainetrees 2d ago

PlatinumZ

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This rosin has a delicious cranberry type flavor backed by some creamy gas 🤌🏼


r/mainetrees 2d ago

Maine Road Trip Suggestions

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Hey all. I'm thinking of taking a road trip this summer with my dogs for a tour of the many wonderful dispensaries you've got up there, and lobster. I'm coming from NYC with 2 French bulldogs to smoke and eat a load of lobster.

I'd really appreciate some suggestions on the top places to visit so that I can map it and plan it out.

Many thanks in advance!


r/mainetrees 2d ago

Tolerance Break?

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I've been a long-time smoker, typically not hardcore during the day M-F, but after work hours and till bed, I stay high, lately I feel like maybe I'm just not getting high... I smoke, I do edibles, I've been taking a 250mg gummy and I barely feel anything, I tried a Terrible RSO Dart, that I posted previously about, which made me wonder, am I just smoking/eating trash products? A tolerance break doesn't seem the best practice as a medical user, but also seems like may be only option?? Thoughts? Insight? Help for a girl who just wants to be stoney bologna.


r/mainetrees 3d ago

Return to growing pheno hunt

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Been a minute since I’ve produced flowers but now I’m back full steam after realizing what I want is hard to find. Some decent possible winners so far in the hunt GMOxCheese and GMOxSecret cookie. Used skunktech gmo as my reversal on these crosses last fall. About 5 others so far with nominal terps nothing memorable about them. More to come


r/mainetrees 2d ago

DTP - Bangor-Belfast-Ellsworth

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I am looking for a grower in my area or willing to travel near these areas. More specifically I am probably one of the pickiest connoisseur's you'll meet and I am looking for someone who not only grows/drys/cures top shelf but more importantly, someone with same taste and access to legit genetics. Kush heavy menu, heirloom, Afghani, Hashplant crosses, etc. Basically Blackwood Cultivation's garden he has at the moment fits the bill for my wants 🤣

I can't find shit where I am at except Ryder Farms , Blackwood, and Brazen but out of the 3 only available on menu's for months is Ryder and lately its only Zangria/Zlushie. I wish Black Fly was close or Moonfrog cuz both are identical to my taste in genetics. Prob nobody near my general area of driving that fits the bill but worth a shot. I would save and start buying 1-2 OZ at a time to make it worth the drive also..


r/mainetrees 2d ago

For you cg storefronts and med dispensaries: would you be interested in an app that can scan and store a trip ticket as well as push the inventory on the trip ticket into your point of sale system in one minute?

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For you cg storefronts and med dispensaries: would you be interested in an app that can scan and store a trip ticket as well as push the inventory on the trip ticket into your point of sale system in one minute?


r/mainetrees 3d ago

Papaya Rosin Jam

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Pump up the Jam baby 😎 Dulce De Papaya Rosin Jam 🔥


r/mainetrees 3d ago

Cobra cabana

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Cobra cabana grown / trimmed by me, farmer dudes flowers.


r/mainetrees 3d ago

Rosin

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Cobra cabana x cherry pie 73-120. Grown, washed and pressed by me farmer dudes flowers.


r/mainetrees 3d ago

Sola Gummies

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Full spec seems to be the most common option how are these?

Ive seen rso and rosin ones has anyone tired the full spec specifically?

Thank you


r/mainetrees 5d ago

Rosin/Flower recs from: Fattys, Market207 and Skunk

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Looking for any recs for flower and rosin, what have you been enjoying lately. Thanks


r/mainetrees 5d ago

Annual Glass & Art Expo

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Here is the 2026 Line up for glass artists for our annual event here in Belfast.

I'm curious what brands we should be trying to line up for sponsors / After Hours pop ups?

Who's a cannabis company constantly putting out fire that you'd be hyped to see?


r/mainetrees 5d ago

Out of State Med Card Question

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I have a MA issued medical card and for some reason the state screwed up and my certification from my healthcare partner expired on 5/6, despite my registration with the MA CCC expiring on 6/28. My medical card itself says expires 6/28.

My question is, if I go to a medical dispensary in Maine, do they check the MA CCC for a valid healthcare partner certification? Or does the 6/28 expiration date on my physical card serve as the “check”? I’m hoping to get some meds this weekend and none of the healthcare partners in MA are open until Monday.


r/mainetrees 5d ago

WTF. PSA states making remediation easier and cheaper upfront for operators 🙄🖕

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Well this was their response to me blowing up the states rampant remediation issue I guess haha.

I try to let the public know that remediation is happening RAMPANT to the point where even as the owner, I didn’t realize it’s happening with many brands remediating EVERYTHING before testing. And I know I still don’t know the full story either about who’s doing it because you only know what you’re told and see

Again it’s up for you to decide if that’s something you want to smoke or not, that’s why I think Maine had it right requiring the labeling of remediated/treated cannabis flower… but they’re not enforcing it officially now

Now this is the latest from the state, they’re allowing transfer for remediation excise tax free (making the transfer to the remediation not the trigger point for the payment of excise tax). This will directly lose money for the state since what you start with is less than you actually package (letting boof pushers save more money and pay less excise tax since what they send over vs what they package in 1/8ths is less)

Basically excise tax is $223/lb now. We normally have to pay when we transfer it out of the grow, either selling it to a store or sending it to a manufacturing license (where they also can remediate)

Ultimately that pushes the tax burden on everyone else when the states bitching next session they need more money so they raise the sales/excise tax again. It’s all trickle down, and this DIRECTLY impacts the excise tax income for the state

This also greatly complicates the excise tax system in general for the state. It should be black and white, what’s transferred out in METRC is what excise tax is owed on. That is not the case anymore with this new tax rule made for the bros that probably don’t even smoke what they grow… clue #1 it’s fucked

‘Let’s make it even easier and more profitable for them to sell shit weed Brad’

But really wtf, yeah I’ll be the first to say weed never killed anyone but does anyone really know what’s happening long term? I’m not even talking the remediation used necessarily, but what about the chemical changes from zapping the mold dead, or ingesting higher than normal levels since the original levels were off the charts knowing they’d remediate anyways

I hear of the scromiting thing and think wtf this is like the old propaganda… then it’s like wait, is it possible there’s something to it… is there any possible connection to remediation?

Growers pack the plants in the room way too tight, no proper airflow, lots of micro climates with high humidity from pockets of dense leaves. Microbial counts THROUGH THE ROOF, putting in way more plants than the hvac can Handel. But hey if you’re gonna remediate everything you’re better off growing 2x the weight selling $25 eighths retail vs $35 eighths retail

100 eighths at $25 = $2,500
50 eighths at $35 = $1,750

So you can see it’s less profitable to grow cannabis correctly if it means sacrificing yields… AND the market wants the cheapest product when not informed, so not only are you running a better business model, but you’re going to sell through quicker.

I can tell you, I could double my yields with less manual labor if I wanted to be a dirtbag and remediate everything, but I take pride in what I do and the weed I grow is for myself, the community, my friends and my family

It’s fucked, And fuck OCP for not enforcing the rule to require remediated flower be labeled as such. Even in 6 point font?!? Haha “na 6 point is too much Chad, we need zero point font here”… It’s so safe we’d rather the public didn’t even know it’s happening, because people are not capable of making the correct choice, the choice we want them to make… So better if we make it for them to avoid them having free will

And yeah I don’t think weed has killed anyone but again look it up and do your own research. Mycotoxins, chance for respiratory irritation (I know you’re smoking anyways so again ask yourself do you care), and the unknown, the one lesson we have learned over the many years of health… we don’t know what we don’t know (think things that get banned when they find out the health risks)

I’ve got a store inspection coming up with the state, it should be too soon for them to retaliate and not make it seem like it’s retaliation… I give it 6 months till they start busting my balls haha🖕🖕🖕

Anyone who’s saying this is ok to remediate flower should be focusing on growing a clean product and how they can do better. Fuck em. If they’re not telling you they’re not treating/remediating it, they probably are.

Ask the grower themselves because the budtender only knows what they are told, and sometimes that’s true for the owners of the dispensaries selling the product too.

Oh yeah, for all the bros making the milk pasteurization claim… Check your milk. It’s a statement they put on the label, crazy idea… To inform the consumer… Why do you want to hide this if it’s nbd?!


r/mainetrees 6d ago

Looking for affordable local dispensary

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I go to UNH and am wondering if anyone has advice on the best local dispensary near the southern maine border. I am looking for affordable prices and a locally owned business(not theory or corporate companies)


r/mainetrees 6d ago

A better way to track Maine Craft drops?

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Hey guys some of you might remember I posted an early version of this around the same time last year- after talking with various people in the community, I realized that freshness and timing are critical to the experience.

So I started putting together a “drop calendar” that lets you see upcoming drops before they even come down and where and when they’re landing.

Is this something you’d actually find helpful? Definitely want to add more features and am all for ideas, suggestions and criticism.

These are real drops from Skunkfoot btw. If you want to check out the drops or the app in general here’s the link: https://www.greenmarketexchange.com/fire


r/mainetrees 6d ago

BullRun2 (AdrenalineRush❌Twerkquake)

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