Maine Rep. David Boyer (R) has an interesting background for a Republican lawmaker: Before winning his election to the House last year, he led the campaign to legalize marijuana in the state as a staffer for a national cannabis reform organization.
When the 34-year-old legislator reflected during an interview with Marijuana Moment on the unique, civil liberties-focused platform that ushered him into the statehouse in the 2022 election, he offered an anecdote: Down the road from where he lives, there’s a gun range and a cannabis retailer, and his campaign yard signs were posted in front of both of them.
Boyer is part of a new generation of Republicans who are grounded in a libertarian ideology that allows them to fashion relationships with their Democratic colleagues as they work to move the needle with older GOP members who have historically resisted marijuana reform. And this session, the freshman has helped make progress on the issue in Maine.
The former Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) staffer who led a ballot campaign to legalize cannabis statewide in 2016 had several bills that he sponsored signed into law this session, including measures to remove state prohibitions on gun ownership by people who lawfully use
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