The facility in Saco, which won zoning approval Monday night, would make a significant addition to Maine’s limited processing capability.
Penelope Overton
Staff Writer
Penny is excited to be the Portland Press Herald’s first climate reporter. Since joining the paper in 2016, she has written about Maine’s lobster and cannabis industries, covered state politics and spent a fellowship year exploring the impact of climate change on the lobster fishery with the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team. Before moving to Maine, she covered politics, environment, casino gambling and tribal issues in Florida, Connecticut and Arizona. Her favorite assignments allow her to introduce readers to unusual people, cultures, or subjects. When off the clock, Penny is usually getting lost in a new book at a local coffeehouse, watching foreign crime shows or planning her family’s next adventure.
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Maine caregivers divided on proposals for medical pot
Some note that the bill now in the Legislature would boost patients’ access but worry that it may let towns force out caregivers.
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Lawmakers support sweeping changes to Maine’s medical marijuana rules
The proposed changes include increasing the number of dispensary licenses and loosening requirements under which medical marijuana can be used.
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What’s happening to the lobster babies? Portland dealer will pay to get an answer
Their numbers are declining in Casco Bay, and Ready Seafood is willing to pay to find out if they’re settling in deeper water where scientists hadn’t been sampling.
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What Maine clients get if they pay for delivery: Free pot
But is it legal? Marijuana gifting services like Greenlyght charge a $90-per-quarter-ounce fee to transport their product to Maine users.
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Size and value of Maine lobster haul fell sharply in 2017
Will the industry survive one bad year? Yes. Will it hurt individual lobstermen? Yes.
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Leader of many Maine lobstermen relinquishing the helm after 27 years
Dave Cousens has advocated – assertively but carefully – for Maine’s largest trade group since 1991. And he insists he won’t keep his trap shut after he steps down.
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Lobstermen chief’s likely successor has strong ethic for conservation
Kristan Porter, 47, of Cutler is expected to be nominated at Friday’s Fishermen’s Forum.
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Maine’s pot legalization committee reaches agreement on rewrite of voter-approved law
The bill it endorses would tax retail sales at 10 percent and halve the number of plants that could be grown for personal use.
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Panel’s marijuana regulation bill omits licensing of social clubs
Legislators writing the adult-use rules don’t want to allow the pot gathering spots until another state goes first, and also vote not to share cannabis tax revenues with towns.