Maine officials say the state won\u2019t be able to meet its February deadline to allow recreational\u00a0marijuana\u00a0sales.<\/p>\n
Republican State Sen. Roger Katz said the agencies responsible for the recreational market rollout don\u2019t have sufficient time before the deadline to perform such tasks as licensing growers, writing departmental rules and hiring new inspectors, the Portland Press Herald reported.<\/p>\n
The president of Legalize Maine estimates the delay means adult-use business licenses won\u2019t be issued until summer 2018.<\/p>\n
Advocates for legalization say the delay \u201ckeeps the black market going.\u201d<\/p>\n
The adult-use marijuana program voters legalized<\/a> in November 2016 already has been<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n Maine will miss deadline to launch recreational cannabis market<\/a> is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n
Maine officials say the state won\u2019t be able to meet its February deadline to allow recreational\u00a0marijuana\u00a0sales. Republican State Sen. Roger Katz said the agencies responsible for the recreational market rollout don\u2019t have sufficient time before the deadline to perform such tasks as licensing growers, writing departmental rules and hiring newContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,10,1200,844,1201],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18624,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18623\/revisions\/18624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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