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Maine Marijuana Legalization Groups Agree to Work Together

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AUGUSTA, Maine — The two campaigns that have been jousting to put competing marijuana legalization questions on Maine’s 2016 state ballot have coalesced behind one plan, organizers announced Monday.

It ends an awkward, rancorous duel that divided marijuana advocates and potentially scared away large national donors who would already have given to the effort to legalize marijuana in Maine under normal circumstances.

The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, a group backed by the Marijuana Policy Project, said in a news release that it will run the effort in support of a legalization question proposed by Legalize Maine, an organization formed by state medical marijuana advocates.

Paul McCarrier, president of Legalize Maine, called the announcement “a major milestone on the path to ending marijuana prohibition in Maine” in a news release. [Read more at the Bangor Daily News]

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