Overview
- Maine’s Secretary of State authorized circulation of a repeal initiative, which needs 67,682 valid signatures by Feb. 2, 2026 to qualify for the ballot.
- The Maine proposal would end commercial cultivation, sales, purchase and personal cultivation, keep possession legal up to 2.5 ounces, and eliminate adult-use taxes.
- Current Maine adult-use licensees would be steered to the medical program with expedited registration plus new testing and product-tracking rules that include screening for specified contaminants.
- Recent recalls of recreational cannabis products in Maine are cited in coverage as context for the push to tighten testing requirements.
- In Massachusetts, the Coalition for a Healthy Massachusetts says it submitted roughly 74,574 signatures for a measure that would repeal sales and cultivation, allow adults to possess up to one ounce and gift cannabis, and restrict legal purchases to medical card holders.