What's classified as "Flowering" in the new bill.

Maine Brookies said:

There is no definition of the word harvestable in the law. In context i tend to believe that the intent is to ensure availability of meds for the patient by staggering crops (e.g i could have 6 plants that are at week 7 of flowering and 6 plants that are at week 3 of flowering simultaneously and only the 7-week plants would count against the allowed total).

The problem is that Maine's law specifies that dried leaf weight must be applied to your total. Since the DA can include weight he can assert to the judge that any plant is harvestable under the law and can therefore count any plant that has flowers showing. At that point it's a crapshoot as to what the judge decides.

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Morning MB,

I'm glad this discussion is progressing intelligently! Sorry I didn't log on to the forum for a few days and missed your reply.


So you tend to beleive that the word 'harvestable' was meant to allow a patient to keep more plants? (What is it 6 plants and 2oz corrent, that really isn't a lot. Rhode Island you are allowed 12 'seedling' and 12 'flowering' plants, however your only allowed 2.5oz.)

I just actually read the Maine laws, well 80% of it... I just skipped over the sections that I knew weren't probably worth reading. I have to say, wow. They aren't anything like they RI laws, which are very structured and intelligently written and get nearly the same laws across in a much more clear, concise manner. Although yours are 10 years ahead of ours. However we haven't had many problems here, and the problems we have had - such as "over grows", if they were legal, they judges have dismissed them based on the law. I think one person did have a large grow and possessed a lot, and they got in a little trouble as it was outside the law.

With that said, and after reading the laws - what I see is the words "6 mature plants" repeated over and over. And harvestable is included in the original description of mature, which is ridiclous I agree - but, somewhere it also encourages a progessive/continous grow style. ("To provide constant access.") So the way I read the law is that you are allowed an unlimited amount of 'seedlings'/vegging plants, and then once every couple of weeks you harvest one of your 6 'mature' plants.

I think for you folks it's time for one of two things. A) Some serious (peaceful) lobbying of law changes/re-drafting. or B) Choose to break the law and pick which one has the least consequences. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do!

I mean some people medically use more than 2,2.5 oz in the amount of time it takes to cut, dry and cure. It doesn't work. On the other hand, progessive grows are kind of foolish if you ask me. They DO provide faster access, most definently. However as far as producing med's, you can produce almost a dozen more plants a year if you grow all of your plants at once at opposed to (trying to) harvest on a perfect perpetual basis. This is based off my whacky math in the past, I'd hope I'm correct but I could be wrong.

So that leaves you in one of two positions. (Here in RI or Maine) Possess more than your allowed, or grow more plants than your allowed so you can perpetually harvest more. I know most places, even if your medical - if you have a certain amount it's an automatic felony for attempted delivery. However I saw in your Maine laws there is an affirmative defense for "medical neccesity". So what, you should keep a log of your use? On the flip side of the coin, I think here in RI (not sure of Maine), but cultivating marijuana is just a misdameanor. So if one had more plants than they were supposed to, you wouldn't get in "that much" trouble.



Through it all, it's just all really weird. I think we need to elect a few people to sit at a round table with "the man".

it is a scary thought having to be public with leo's but someone ought to... if only to put a face with it... there has to be education coming from the other side of the street, hell the dea will fly those folks all over under the guise of public and police education, but no one who actually knows anything about cannabis ever seems to be giving real info to them... it is a f'ed up system we have here... it's gonna take more than a few brave souls to do it before it gets out of hand...

I agree NL.

Who to be the face though.

Buddy232 said:

I agree NL.

Who to be the face though.

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I thought NL was volunteering

Hi, I will be moving to Kittery in January and will be looking to start treating my glaucoma with cannabis. Once I get licensed and legit, I will help educate the public and will talk to LEO.

I survived cancer so this is the second time I will need mmj. I am no longer afraid of speaking out. It is always a good idea to stay below the radar though since the the local cops and the feds are probably looking to make an example out of someone in the northeast.