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Maine Medical Pot Trade Show Breaks New Ground Legally Medicating In Public
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November 6
Medical Pot Trade Show Breaks New Ground Legally
Medicating In Public
Users of medicinal marijuana get their first
trade show in Maine, working with police in 'a step forward' for all patients in
the state. This News Story is now going GLOBAL! News Papers, Marijuana Message
Forums from around the world are picking up this News Story. 1st Time Being
"Legally Allowed To Medicate" IN A PUBLIC LOCATION!
By KEITH EDWARDS Kennebec
Journal
http://www.kjonline.com/news/permissionto-medicate_2011-11-05.html
AUGUSTA MAINE -- Medical marijuana users
shared hits off a vaporizer and compared buds of their home-grown efforts
Saturday, separated by just the thin vinyl wall of a tent and several feet of
Augusta Civic Center parking lot from Augusta Police Sgt. Christopher Shaw.
Chris Kenoyer uses a Happy
Vappy Vaporizer to inhale marijuana during the Home Grown Maine trade show
Saturday at the Augusta Civic Center. “This is the first time we’ve had
permission "Legally" to medicate in public,” he said. in the
parking lot during the trade show, which continues today.
Joe Phelan/Kennebec
Journal
The marijuana use taking place in the tent was
not why Shaw was there.
Medicinal users with the proper legal
documentation could use marijuana in the tent outside the city-owned civic
center because of an agreement by police, the District Attorney's Office and
organizers of Home Grown Maine, the first trade show and festival put on by
Medical Marijuana Caregivers of Maine.
"This is the first time we've had
permission to medicate in public, the first time," said Chris Kenoyer of
Portland, a patients' advocate and activist who uses marijuana for severe,
chronic back pain caused by a degenerative spinal injury. "That's a step
forward for all Maine patients."
Shaw was there for the mundane task of telling
a food vendor, who was selling fried food from his trailer parked just behind
the tent, he couldn't sell food on the property without prior arrangements with
the civic center.
Later Saturday afternoon, Shaw said that was
about the only problem at the medical
marijuana event.
Dana Colwill, director of the civic center,
agreed things were running smoothly considering the unusual nature of the event,
and the request of organizers to have a place where patients could legally use
marijuana.
"This is really new ground," Colwill
said, following a brief discussion with organizers in which he reminded Ron
Norton, of the Maine Green Cross patient caregiver organization, who was
overseeing the vaporizer tent, that anyone entering the tent had to first show
legal documentation indicating they were a medical marijuana patient. "The
first thing I did was contact Augusta police, so I knew what (medical marijuana
patients) can do or not do," Colwill said.
He said Saturday as the two-day event got
started that representatives of Medical Marijuana Caregivers of Maine, a patient
and caregiver trade organization, had been great to work with and careful about
following the rules.
Paul McCarrier, legislative liaison for the
group, expected 500 to 700 people Saturday. He praised city officials for
working with the group "and accommodating patients who need their
medicine."
While attendees at the show didn't have to
prove they are medical marijuana users or caregivers to enter the civic center,
McCarrier said the event was not targeted at recreational pot smokers.
"This is not an appropriate place for
recreational use," McCarrier said.
Hilary Maitland of Augusta, who uses marijuana
to manage the pain caused by multiple injuries she suffered in a car accident,
including arthritis in her spine, was appreciative of the event as a way to
learn how to grow better medication and support the community.
She said she was not worried about the
potential of federal agents busting medical marijuana users at the event.
Marijuana use is still illegal under federal law.
"I figure as long as I'm doing everything
by the rules, that I'll be OK," she said. "I'm not affecting anybody
but myself. You'd think there are bigger things (for the federal government) to
worry about."
Inside the auditorium, business appeared to be
relatively slow for vendors hawking grow lights, clothing, organic compost,
buttons and bumper stickers, crafts, jewelry and other items.
Josh Woodbury, a founder of the Lakes
Region-based Alternative Botanicals caregivers, sat at a table filled with
plastic bowls containing marijuana buds with names like purple kush and
strawberry cough written on tags made of duct tape, as well as brownies, lotions
and liquids. He said his group often works with patients who are looking for
ways other than smoking to medicate themselves with marijuana.
He said edibles are catching on, with the
potential to use marijuana to make chili, spaghetti sauce, whoopie pies and
other foods.
Jake McClure, a founder and board member of
Medical Marijuana Caregivers of Maine, manned the Jefferson-based Maine
Hydroponics Supply booth, for whom he consults on grow rooms, showing off
devices meant to help people clone and grow plants.
Presenters at the event included
Hallowell-based Dr. Dustin Sulak, a nationally recognized expert on medical
marijuana; Alysia Melnick, public policy counsel for the Maine Civil Liberties
Union; and, remotely by Skype, Dr. Lester Grinspoon, associate professor
emeritus of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and the author of books and
website content on medical marijuana.
The event, which was scheduled to continue
until midnight Saturday and resume this morning, also featured bands and other
entertainment.
Kennebec Journal Staff Writer Keith Edwards
can be contacted at 621-5647 or at: kedwards@centralmaine.com
http://www.pressherald.com/news/this-is-really-new-ground-____2011-11-06.html
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