“Legal use of marijuana doesn’t exist right now,” Findlay said. With the 2016 statewide vote to legalize marijuana, it was clear a majority of Maine voters wanted it, Findlay said, but the actual demand for legal cannabis products remains to be seen, and it is demand that will shape the market. “You don’t often see this kind of stuff happening in real time,” said David Findlay, a professor of economics at Colby College in Waterville. Now, the Gardiner City Council is considering whether it, in addition to the regulations and fees already put in place, wants to impose an additional limit on the number of retail spaces the city will allow in its downtown neighborhood. The demand for marijuana retail space that is developing in Gardiner has caught residents, business owners and city officials by surprise. The Planning Board is expected to take up two more applications at its meeting this week, and eventually the application for McMahan’s company.
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Two medical marijuana retail shops on Water Street have either closed or moved out of the city.Īt Wednesday’s City Council meeting, city officials approved a business license for Herbal Pathways at 35 Bridge St. The city also has six medical marijuana grow operations and a medical retail store.
The Healing Community MEDCo is one of three retailers that has filed an application for a marijuana establishment business license for a store in and around Gardiner’s downtown. While city officials have established regulations on marijuana-related businesses ahead of the launch of Maine’s adult-use marijuana market, expected later this year, neither they nor anybody in the industry know exactly how that market will shake out. The company has plans to open a third location at 189 Water St. Their company, The Healing Community MEDCo, operates two medical marijuana stores in Lewiston.Īs the launch date for the state’s adult-use cannabis market draws closer, they are working to expand their business beyond Lewiston and beyond the medical marijuana and related products they currently sell. GARDINER - Alex McMahan and his partners made it a point to complete and submit their license application last week for an adult-use marijuana business in Gardiner.
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