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The Cannabis Healing Center is a medical marijuana dispensary that has opened this month in Hallowell. The Water Street dispensary is in a good position to expand when rules and regulations for recreational sales are announced. The Hallowell marijuana task force met Tuesday to discuss a potential moratorium on recreational marijuana sales.
The marijuana task force wants to see how the regulations are set in other areas of the country before adopting its own for Hallowell, according to Central Maine. Hallowell Councilor Lynn Irish is surprised to see the “wait-and-see approach.”
Irish said, “Everyone on the task force agrees that there is no sense in doing anything until we know what the state’s going to do. The Maine Municipal Association has been recommending a moratorium, but so far, nobody here has been in favor of it.”
The countdown to recreational marijuana being legal to possess and use in Maine is on – January 30 is the magic date. Another meeting date hasn’t been scheduled for the Hallowell marijuana task force yet. Irish believes that they’ll wait to meet again until they see what moves the state makes, if any.
Derek Wilson, owner of The Cannabis Healing Center, is a patient himself. He has four patients he grows specifically for and uses his 5th caregiver position as a rotating position. Regarding the recreational marijuana side of things, Wilson said, “Dispensaries don’t want caregivers like myself opening up retail stores. I’m considering recreational marijuana because there is money to be made, so it’s worth exploring.”
Stereotyping is still something that happens among older generations, including in Maine.
Wilson said, “The older generation of people, especially, doesn’t see the medical benefits of cannabis, because they just see someone smoking pot to get high and be useless. The mindset is changing and evolving, but there’s a ways to go.”
His dispensary has a clinical setting and plans to have an on-site certification day on January 29.
Wilson said, jokingly, that, “I’m like a pharmacist for cannabis.”
If he has to choose between medical and recreational marijuana shops, Wilson said, “I’d probably have to do one or the other, but I got into it for the medical benefits it provides people. I had a woman walk by the other day who told me what I was doing was commendable and fantastic.”
