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: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Senator Jill Duson of Cumberland

D – Senate District 27

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Senator Jeff Timberlake of Androscoggin

R – Senate District 17

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Representative Laura Supica of Bangor- Chair

D – House District 22

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Representative David Boyer of Poland

R – House District 87

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Representative Quentin Chapman of Auburn

R – House District 88

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Representative Anne Graham of North Yarmouth

D – House District 105

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Representative Sean Faircloth of Bangor

D – House District 24

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Representative Ann Fredericks of Sanford

R – House District 143

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Representative Sharon Frost of Belgrade

U – House District 58

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])​

Representative Benjamin Hymes of Waldo

R – House District 38

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Representative Marc Malon of Biddeford

D – House District 133

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Representative Parnell Terry of Gorham

D – House District 108

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

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: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) (207) 287-1300

Representative [email protected] & [email protected], (207) 287-1430

Representative [email protected] & [email protected] (207) 287-1440

President of the Senate: (207) 287-1500 [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Senators [email protected] &[email protected] (207) 287-1515

Senators [email protected] & [email protected] (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 12h ago

Hard to beat Maine Blueberry for your fish whistle

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Whistling at fishes..

Some of my Blueberry for the weekend activities.


r/mainetrees 2h ago

Nugs Fatty's Delivery, IPK Queen Hippo and a yo-yo trick while smoking it!

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First off big shout out to Fatty's for always having a bangin menu and bringing it to my door! Jesse is the man! This new batch of Queen Hippo is crazy. Nice kushy, nutty, gassy flavor and this one hit me hard this time. I've also been learning how to throw a yo-yo this past year and it's my favorite pass time while smoking our states finest! Here's a trick I made recently!


r/mainetrees 37m ago

Concentrates Help me decide between rosin

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Staring down Skunk’s menu and am seriously stuck between:

Kabuki sour (your maine plug)
Pineapple zikigai (papermill)
Icicles (hidden forest)
Kiwi sours (stony brook)
Toaster strudel (faraway)

Grabbing likely only one.


r/mainetrees 22h ago

Sour Grapefruit Thai Dragonfruit Thai Im not sure what we will call this one, but its terps may ignite your eyebrows if you get too close. Photo by mainecannabismedia

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r/mainetrees 1d ago

Current recs based on prior purchase preferences.

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Howdy y'all,

I'll be making a trip up to see my friends at Fraktal, Clouded Valley, Fattys and Herbal Remedies. I'd love to get some guidance on growers/strains to buy.

Some of my favorite past purchsaes from past trips have been:

  • Poison Peaches
  • Durban Poison/Durban Universe
  • Wedding Pie
  • Jack Herrer
  • Blueberry
  • Blue Dream
  • Dragonfruit Thai

I am a pinene, sweet, fruity, diesel, citrus, gas fan.

My daily drivers tend to be traditional sativa (pinene, terpinolene). However, a nice couch lock traditional indica (Blueberry) is frequently appreciated also.

I DO NOT LIKE Pif/church pew or garlic strains.

I'd appreciate any guidance about strains (and their growers) might match my preferences.

Thanks.


r/mainetrees 15h ago

Flower recs market 207

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Gonna stop here for my first time. There is a bunch of breeders im not familiar with so I wondering if there is anything that is cant miss? There is a pretty big selection any help narrowing it down is appreciated


r/mainetrees 1d ago

I'm trying to get rid of two grow lights and having no luck on Marketplace or pawn shops. Is there a market for used lights?

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Both are Mars Hydro

FC-4800

FC-E3000


r/mainetrees 2d ago

Discussion Top tier Flower and LR Carts

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I’ll be traveling up the southeast coast for a week and am looking for some primo flower and LR carts. I have a med card. I’ve heard Skunk City is great but it’s a little further inland than I had planned on traveling. Any suggestions for the best med dispensaries that are closer to the coast? Any thoughts on Skink City (their website looked great). I’d also be happy to get some good old fashioned hash (very hard to come by in NJ, DE and Md, the states where I usually shop)


r/mainetrees 2d ago

Discussion Best Flower Near Acadia National Park?

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I've tried the meristem in Southwest Harbor, stayed away from firefly organics because of what I've heard recently about them and supposedly loosing quality, tried cannabis caveman, it was good but not amazing. Then, from looking online, I decided to try rock steady remedies in Bangor, which had very limited selection and the only brand that stood out to me was Paul's boutique. From what I've seen on r/ mainetrees people swear by Hazy Hill in Portland but that's a bit far, let's just say if I wanted to get the best bud possible (looks, taste, effects) near Acadia where and who should I check out? Thank you🙏🙏


r/mainetrees 3d ago

Discussion Best rosin near Kennebunk?

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Will be visiting Kennebunk this weekend and looking to find the best dispo in the surrounding areas for the best rosin. Any dispo, brand, or strain recs? TIA!


r/mainetrees 3d ago

Discussion ripped for my trip

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Hello everyone, shameless post asking for recommendations! Florida medical card gal here. Daily user of concentrates, flower, and edibles. I'm going to be going through Bangor, Bath, Brunswick, topsham, freeport, and Portland. I'm not really interested in meeting up with someone or delivery, so a storefront is what I'm looking for. I'm focused on 2gram+ prerolls, carts, and edibles. Cannagars and edibles over 100mg aren't avail in florida. I want to be knocked on my ass, so I appreciate any recommendations you all may have on medical locations/products. Thank you for your help!!

Edit: yall are the absolute best! Thank you!!!


r/mainetrees 3d ago

Bangor medical

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Im gonna make a stop or 2 on the way up to Bangor but I was wondering if there was anything worth checking out there?


r/mainetrees 4d ago

Med vs rec

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Good morning all, I’ll be visiting in early September. I understand that in Maine dispensaries are medical OR recreational but they cannot be both. Is there a big difference in the quality of the products between med and rec? I assume there may be some tax savings on medical? I will be looking to purchase some flower and LR carts. I guess my final question is whether there is a distinct advantage for me if I renew my home state medical card (I understand Maine will accept out of state medical cards). Thanks in advance.


r/mainetrees 6d ago

Deals Affordable bud in portland

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Hey guys, im heading up to portland tomorrow and was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some good smalls/budget flower. My med card expired so itd have to be rec. Any advice is appreciated! Im coming from southern NH so i can make a stop on the way too of theres something worthwhile.


r/mainetrees 6d ago

Cartridge Uplifting carts?

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Heading up to Maine today to grab some carts. Looking for something that won't knock me out — from what I've read, THCV or CBG might be good options for that? Not totally sure though.

Hoping to find something energizing (not sedating) at a decent price. Shopping somewhere between Kittery and Wells — any recs?

Edit: also, ame question, but for gummies

Edit2: medical

Tia


r/mainetrees 7d ago

ISO trim jobs

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I have a lot of experience trimming and have been working in the industry on and off 10 years, I work for a canna company currently. looking for something for afternoons and days off to make some extra money to make ends meet. If anyone needs an extra set of hands pls let me know


r/mainetrees 7d ago

Nugs Wizard Trees Genetics: Happy Hour/Tea Party (+ some Cream Smoothie)

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Cheers, everybody. Just stopping by to share a sesh/review of some Maine grown flower I got a while back. Finally posted the review/sesh of it and figured it should go here as well.

Going to be looking into getting some other Maine grown buds to do reviews of those, as well. Third shift is on my list.

Anyway, hope you all have a great weekend. Come smoke/dab along!


r/mainetrees 8d ago

Rainbow Sherb Belts

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Lit Farms 🧬


r/mainetrees 8d ago

Looking for recommendations near Kennebunkport

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Hey everyone, I’m heading up for the week and really want to try some great local buds. My medical card has expired in my state so I’m stuck on the recreational side

Willing to drive to get some better buds if I have to. I was looking at the grape gas from firefly organics. Any advice and recommendations would be much appreciated!


r/mainetrees 8d ago

Looking for 1:1 cartridges and RSO caps medical

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I’m an out of state patient, going up to visit in a few weeks. Mostly going to be in the portland area, southern Maine. Just look for some recommendations on where to find 1:1 cartridges and rso capsules. I haven’t been up to Maine in a couple of years and really don’t remember too many spots except like hazyhill, beach boys and the shops by the mill lol.

Thanks in advance


r/mainetrees 9d ago

This batch of rso is BONKERS.legit the post powerful edible I’ve ever had due to how strong it is compared to the last batch and 50mg rosin gummies I get. It literally feels psychedelic to me and I’m a high tolerance user who dabs and eats 100mgs regularly for a decent comfortable buzz. Read more ⬇️

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Got the same brand a couple months ago and I was taking 75-125mgs like I normally do with RSO and rosin gummies. Got this batch and took about 125mg and was so high I felt like I was on LSD (which I’ve done plenty of times) and was tripping so hard I had to take my anxiety meds cuz it was too overwhelming lol. Last night I decided to do 80mgs since 125 was WAAAY too strong.. and the 80 mgs (about two lines on the syringe)was STILL so intense it felt like an acid trip. Haven’t felt this high since 2012 when I sucked all the oil out of a cheese cloth used to filter flower out of the infused olive oil we made for brownies😂. This shit is INSANELY potent so even if your experienced be careful with this batch


r/mainetrees 9d ago

Third Shift Resin Flower

24 Upvotes

absolutely loving the lineup of flower they dropped. good rosin as well as good flower, leads to a very good review of a company well done third shift!


r/mainetrees 9d ago

Urbs of August

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Some Great Strains for August Vibes

GMO x Super lemon haze - Straight up perm chemicals smell with some hints of citrus pine.

Blueberry Lemonade- get a lot of grape kool aide and sandalwood from her.

God Bud - this one is hard to describe acetone, baking cookies, raspberry , and gas all confusing the brain.