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A final vote in Maine’s House of Representatives to ovverride Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of recreational cannabis regulations failed to garner the two-thirds support necessary on Monday, sending legislators back to the drawing board in January, and leaving Pine Tree State smokers with no option but homegrown or black market bud to satiate their legal weed needs.
According to the Portland Press Herald, Maine’s House voted in favor of LD 1650 by a vote of 74-62, 17 votes shy of the two-thirds consensus needed to overturn Gov. LePage’s veto, and 10 votes less than the bill’s pre-veto passing late last month.
Now, thanks to a cannabis sales moratorium blocking the state’s voter-approved legal weed system until at least February of next year, lawmakers have little more than three months to either craft and pass a brand new set of cannabis regulations, concede to the voter-approved plan, or extend the existing legal weed ban.
“I feel like we legalized gasoline, but not gas stations,” Rep. Martin Grohman, an Independent who supported the veto override, told reporters after the failed vote.
And with Gov. LePage suggesting at…
