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.

102 Upvotes

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 5h ago

Discussion Bangor

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Gonna be in Bangor next week. Any caregivers or dispos I should hit up?

I've had ECC's Blackberry Panna Cotta and Zoap sold by Fraktal a WHILE back and both were crazy on the terps. Looking for more flower like that. What should I check out while I'm up there?


r/mainetrees 8h ago

Edibles Low Mg Edible Availability

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Howdy! Headed to York for the first time this weekend. Are there any shops nearby that offer 1-2.5mg mints or other very low-dose edibles? I usually buy delta-9 mints online, but I ran out, and won’t have time to re-up before I leave. Thanks in advance.


r/mainetrees 1d ago

Straight monsters

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r/mainetrees 1d ago

Brave Boat Gardens 🍷🌟

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Bahama Berry 🏝️🍓. Man this puck is insane the terps are so alive on this one the heavy couch lock on this is unreal 😭

Dialed @ 398• ascending to 500• full 84 second extraction 🍷🌪️ with a 5mm ruby pearl. Absolute wine sip flavor on the low end and massive heavy vapor by the time it tops out. Pure full body couch lock. Maine hash is just different! 🍾🌊


r/mainetrees 1d ago

Local Farms

5 Upvotes

Heading to Maine soon and looking to connect with local farms and growers. Would love to check out some farms. Also meet people in the community. If anyone’s willing to point me in the right direction, I’d really appreciate it


r/mainetrees 2d ago

Edibles Toad Venom and Rotten Grapes | Ampersand (&) by Cold Room Drip x Blue River Terps

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Cheers, everyone! Figured I'd still share this here.

Don't know if anyone here is familiar with Ampersand, but its a "plant-based rosin-derived oral concentrate that dissolves in your mouth and absorbs through the lymphatic system, blood, and liver at different rates" Its FDA approved and everything, so that's kinda cool.

The rosin was grown and washed by Cold Room Drip and the Ampersand technique itself is trademark of Blue River Terps. Blue River Terps does have collabs with other growers/hash makers as well, from what I've seen. This was honestly one of the coolest things i've tried and for someone who has trouble finding edibles that work, this was a nice surprise.

Anyway, there are closeups of the ampersand which I got in Toad Venom and Rotten Grapes. I tried this during a 7/10 sesh so theres lots of fun random stuff in between. Come smoke/dab along!


r/mainetrees 3d ago

When did Wisely close?

8 Upvotes

Haven't checked up on them in a minute but figured I should and it seems they've shut down operations. Grove appears to have moved into the Sanford location and the South Berwick location says temporarily closed. Thanks!


r/mainetrees 4d ago

Favorite hash rosin

5 Upvotes

What’s up guys. I’m visiting Maine and I’m wondering what’s everyone’s fav rosin. My wife’s cousin has access to a medical card. I’m near Bath but driving through Portland area. What should I be looking for. I’m from Colorado looking for some fire. Help me out gang! Much love!


r/mainetrees 4d ago

1:1 Flower or Prerolls

4 Upvotes

Does anyone have any suggestions on medical dispensaries to get 1:1 flower or prerolls in southern Maine/Portland area. Weedmaps has been utterly useless. I sometimes can get pre rolls from Well Lit at Atlantic Farms, which I really enjoy, I just want to find some more options - or even other places to find their stuff. Flower would be preferred over prerolls, as I like to smoke from my bong more. Any help is appreciated, thanks! :)


r/mainetrees 4d ago

Deals Rosin by the gram in bulk

2 Upvotes

Ok so right now my line up is

Upward organics
Aloha
Hazy hill
Burny
So no need to name these I use to get greentruck as my “cheaper” smoke but the issue is now they charging top dollar, so I’m looking for single grams of rosin by the Oz in the 800-1000 would consider 1200 so who’s your go to farm to patient brands that meat direct!!! Thanks in advance


r/mainetrees 4d ago

Nugs Cold Queso (Dam-a-lam (Dolato × Chocolate Pie) x Skunch) | Cold Room Drip

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Cheers, yall. Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Here's a sesh/review of a really good Cheese strain I was able to get my hands on grown by a Maine grower, Cold Room Drip so I figured I should post it here as well.

There are closeups of the flower and I test it out in my Arizer dry herb vapes balloon and bong attachments and my bong. Come smoke along!


r/mainetrees 5d ago

GG4 x GSC from Humboldt csi. Are these reddish marks signs of nutrient lockout?

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Relevant details:

Soil (Stonington Blend)
RO water with GH Flora Trio
Recently introduced calmag


r/mainetrees 5d ago

Boothbay Highly

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I'll be in Boothbay this week and would like some advisement on strains or brands at Highly. I see suitcase money by escobar when I sort by high terps. But the thc is also high, which in my state usually means poorly balanced (low cbd). If anyone has suggestions from there, I can send you mindful appreciation of your humanity. Almost as good as cash.


r/mainetrees 5d ago

Toad Venom

15 Upvotes

This will be dropping at several of our retailers
don’t sleep it will sell out fast per usual


r/mainetrees 5d ago

710Labs white pucks

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r/mainetrees 6d ago

Nugs Maine Trees | Pink Lobster

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Cheers, yall. Did a sesh/review of some Pink Lobster and figured I should post it here as well.

There are closeups and I smoked it thru my bong, an Arizer dry herb vape and a joint. Come smoke along!


r/mainetrees 7d ago

Shaggy’s Baggy Peanut Butter Pie

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18 Upvotes

25mg Hash rosin infused


r/mainetrees 7d ago

Discussion Where Can I Find Maine Trees Lobster strains?

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Anyone know where I can find Maine Trees’ Lobster strains? I’ve been hunting for Blue Lobster/Lobster any of them and can’t seem to find a dispensary carrying them. Any leads would be much appreciated.

Edit: forgot to mention, I’m out of state visiting so no medical card :(


r/mainetrees 9d ago

Recent pick up from Clouded Valley

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My most recent pick up from Clouded Valley. Fire as usual. He even threw in a free sample of freeze dried ice cream, which I didn't notice until I went to throw out the bag lol. Glad I did as it knocked me out. Had the best sleep I've had in months. From left to right: First strain is Topanga Canyon Pure Kush. My favorite out of the batch. Strong body high, tastes earthy and a little gassy. Great for insomnia and anxiety. Second is Skywalker OG. Similar high as the TCPK but took a little longer to kick in. Tastes great. Third is Blueberry Fruity pebbles OG. Very fruity smelling and tasting. Definitely a creeper. Didn't feel much for the first few minutes and then it hit me like a freight train. More of an even balance between head and body but more body leaning. The last one is Jelly Donut. Beautiful, sticky buds with some purple mixed in. Has that classic baked goods taste and smell. This one was more evely balanced as well but really good euphoria and relaxed high. Also grabbed a donut hole or w/e you call em lol. I got the 1 G chem dog d , .2 grape pie live rosin( the smallest option) and it took me 3 smoke sessions to finish it. Very heavy / potent. Finally tried the freeze dried ice cream last night. Only 20mgs but it was pretty nice. Felt like I smoked a gram of fire to my face for the first couple hours and eventually knocked me out but wasn't too overbearing. Just the right strength for a laid back evening and a great night's sleeps. Will def be getting more next time, especially at the current price point. Always a great experience with the Colonel!


r/mainetrees 11d ago

Headgames (nyc piffx3dg13 fast haze) has to be one of the best terp profiles in the garden sharp rotten mango fresh squeezed oj piff goodness.

66 Upvotes

r/mainetrees 11d ago

Discussion Grower similar to the DOOM

9 Upvotes

Howdy,

It looks as though the DOOM might be taking a break. Anyone know of a grower in the Sanford area that has a similar DIY setup? Doom’s price point and quality was unmatched.

I Appreciate any feedback.


r/mainetrees 11d ago

Limitless Earth Tinctures

3 Upvotes

I tried a few Limitless Earth Tinctures a few years ago that I really liked and haven’t seen them anywhere. Anybody know if these still exist or who was making them?


r/mainetrees 12d ago

Happy 7/10 r/MaineTrees!

14 Upvotes

I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful Friday!