A Maine Republican lawmaker and marijuana industry advocates are sounding the alarm about alleged misleading petition tactics being used by a campaign seeking to put an initiative on the November ballot to roll back the state’s voter-approved cannabis legalization law.
A video shared by Rep. David Boyer (R) on Friday features an image of a person seemingly collecting signatures for a ballot measure and an audio recording where he significantly misrepresents what the cannabis proposal would accomplish, claiming that its primary intent is to ensure product safety with enhanced testing requirements.
In reality, the initiative would end regulated recreational marijuana sales as approved by voters in 2016. Possession of up to 2.5 ounces of cannabis would remain legal, but adults would no longer be able to grow plants for personal use or buy adult-use cannabis from licensed stores.
“We’re trying to make it more regulated. So some people are selling old weed and molded. They keep it in the storage or something. We’re trying to make it to where it’s regulated, like restaurants,” the petitioner is heard saying. “You don’t go in a restaurant eat [off] dirty dishes. They got to sanitize it. We just trying to have it more
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