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130th MAINE LEGISLATURE
                  FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2021
Legislative Document                                                                   No. 525
S.P. 210                                                           In Senate, February 24, 2021
           An Act To Allow Medical and Adult Use Marijuana Stores To Share
           a Common Space
   Received by the Secretary of the Senate on February 22, 2021. Referred to the Committee
on Veterans and Legal Affairs pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed.
                                                                         DAREK M. GRANT
                                                                        Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator MIRAMANT of Knox.
Cosponsored by Representative PLUECKER of Warren and
Senators: CLAXTON of Androscoggin, President JACKSON of Aroostook, MAXMIN of
Lincoln, Representatives: TALBOT ROSS of Portland, WARREN of Hallowell, WILLIAMS
of Bar Harbor.
                                       Printed on recycled paper
 1   Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
 2       Sec. 1. 28-B MRSA §504, sub-§5, as enacted by PL 2017, c. 409, Pt. A, §6 and
 3   amended by c. 452, §37, is repealed.
 4       Sec. 2. 28-B MRSA §504, sub-§5-A is enacted to read:
 5        5-A. Use of shared facility for retail sale of adult use marijuana and adult use
 6   marijuana products and sale of marijuana and marijuana products for medical use.
 7   A marijuana store licensee that is also a registered caregiver or a registered dispensary may
 8   sell or offer for sale to consumers adult use marijuana and adult use marijuana products
 9   pursuant to this chapter within the same facility or building in which the licensee also sells
10   or offers for sale to qualifying patients marijuana and marijuana products for medical use
11   pursuant to the Maine Medical Use of Marijuana Act, as long as the adult use marijuana
12   and adult use marijuana products are sold using a different cash register than that used for
13   sales of marijuana and marijuana products for medical use.
14                                          SUMMARY
15       This bill allows the use of a shared facility for retail sale of adult use marijuana and
16   adult use marijuana products and sale of marijuana and marijuana products for medical use,
17   as long as the adult use marijuana and adult use marijuana products are sold using a
18   different cash register than that used for sales of marijuana and marijuana products for
19   medical use.
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Statutes affected: 
Bill Text LD 525, SP 210: 28-B.504