There’s another effort brewing to undermine a state voter-approved marijuana law—this time in Maine, where a citizen initiative backed by GOP operatives has been submitted in hopes of rolling back the commercial adult-use market.
Almost 10 years after Maine voters passed a recreational legalization measure at the ballot, a group of voters—including a Republican state senator and a former top staffer to then-Gov. Paul LePage (R), a staunch prohibitionist—filed a petition to repeal much of the law with the secretary of state’s office last month.
This comes as a separate campaign in Massachusetts says it’s “on track” to turn in enough signatures to qualify their own initiative to roll back cannabis legalization for the state’s 2026 ballot.
In Maine, the citizen initiative application led by Madison Carey and signed by state Sen. Scott Cyrway (R), former LePage senior policy advisor Nicholas Adolphsen and others describes a broad repeal of current statutes allowing for the retail sale of cannabis to adults, while also stripping consumers of the right to grow their own plants for personal use.
Possession of up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana by adults would remain legal under the proposal. And the state’s medical cannabis program would remain intact.
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