PORTLAND (WGME) – Federal authorities say illegal growing of marijuana is happening all over rural parts of the country, including in Maine. There were dozens of illegal grow busts in the state ...

Police continue to crack down on large-scale illegal marijuana growing operations in Maine. Since January 2024, the Somerset County Sheriff's Office alone has executed 24 search warrants related ...

A Maine utility wants to be an ally with law enforcement in the crackdown on illegal marijuana grow operations — if it can overcome privacy concerns. ... Sign up for our Crime & Courts newsletter ...

investigators say illegal grow houses tied to Chinese organized crime are increasingly shifting to the medical market, avoiding oversight in the process. Maine’s illegal marijuana “grow houses ...

Despite marijuana becoming legal in more ... had identified 270 illicit cultivation operations in Maine backed by Chinese organized crime groups — nearly triple the number of legal growing ...

FBI Director Christopher Wray says the FBI seeing more ties between illicit marijuana operations in Maine and Chinese organized crime. Get stock picks, daily rankings, and pro-level trading tools ...

Susan Collins, R-Maine, questioned FBI Director Christopher Wray about the alarming increase in illegal marijuana grow operations ... a link to Chinese organized crime. Wray said it’s even ...

It came as law enforcement officials target marijuana grow operations in which rural homes in Maine are purchased, gutted and transformed into sophisticated, high-yield indoor farms. Twenty states ...

Maine imposes a 15% excise tax and a 10% sales tax on marijuana. Adults over 21 in Massachusetts ... charges such as firearms or organized crime. Decriminalization is, broadly defined, the ...

LD 2236 allows people who committed marijuana crimes before it was legal to apply to seal their criminal histories for those crimes. Maine legalized marijuana in 2017. While this bill was passed ...

A Maine utility wants to be an ally with law enforcement in the crackdown on illegal marijuana grow operations — if it can overcome privacy concerns. ...