High Quality Grow Lights<\/a> LD 1650<\/a>\u00a0was written by a special legislative committee. LePage said the bill conflicts with federal law, fails to account adequately for Maine\u2019s existing medical marijuana industry and sets \u201cunrealistic timelines.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere have been serious negative effects of legalization in other states \u2014 effects that should not be repeated in Maine,\u201d LePage wrote in his\u00a0veto letter<\/a>, adding that \u201cwe need assurances that a change in policy or administration at the federal level will not nullify\u201d public and private investments in the industry.<\/p>\n He also said the recreational marijuana bill fails to align with existing medical marijuana law, particularly because sales tax on medical pot would be lower.<\/p>\n \u201cThe two programs must be considered together,\u201d wrote LePage.<\/p>\n Read More: LePage vetoes bill to regulate marijuana sales in Maine \u2014 Politics \u2014 Bangor Daily News \u2014 BDN Maine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gov. Paul LePage said Friday that he has vetoed a bill to tax and regulate recreational marijuana, which\u00a0the Legislature sent him Oct. 23\u00a0with fragile support. High Quality Grow Lights LD 1650\u00a0was written by a special legislative committee. LePage said the bill conflicts with federal law, fails to account adequately for Maine\u2019s existing medical marijuana industry … Continue reading “LePage vetoes bill to regulate marijuana sales in Maine – Bangor Daily News”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,211,83,204],"tags":[272,270,243,269,271],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation","category-maine","category-recreational","category-states","tag-bill","tag-governor","tag-maine","tag-paul-lepage","tag-veto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/distractableme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/distractableme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/distractableme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/distractableme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/distractableme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/distractableme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"http:\/\/distractableme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/distractableme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/distractableme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/distractableme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/distractableme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n