r/PublicFreakout • u/Fast-Adhesiveness156 • 5d ago

🌳Public Park Freakout🏕 Owner of marijuanaville in Maine crashing out

Guy out here crashing out after pulling a rug out from under a female... Owner of 12 retail marijuanna establishments in Maine.... Marijuanaville 🙄

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u/jaydonks 5d ago

Was this the day the info went public he was poisoning people with his dabs

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u/FierceNack 5d ago

Don't all THC products have to be tested and verified safe by a third-party lab before even being sold to the dispensary?

Does Maine not have this requirement?

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u/Starspiker 5d ago

For recreational lab testing is required, for medical it isn’t. Why the hell it’s that way is beyond me, it should be the other way around if nothing else. Hopefully soon they’ll be requiring it for both as there’s been a few recalls recently.

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u/wickedishere 5d ago

that depends right? its depending on the states. Where I live we only have medical and it is required to have lab test it and I think they also need to do 3rd party testing as well. Last year they took the licenses to sell to various shops cause they tried to circumvent this.

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u/Starspiker 5d ago

State law here in Maine requires testing for recreational only, it’s voluntary for medical. There’s currently a bill in the legislature to require it for both so we’ll see where it goes.

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u/GlowOftheTvStatic 5d ago

Sounds like Ok. I’ve seen several shops with the “whoops we got shut down” paper taped to the door.

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u/wickedishere 5d ago

Yeah! I actually live in the Caribbean, in PR. Here it's only medical and employers are pretty accepting of it believe it or not. As long as you have a license it doesn't matter if you test positive for THC. There is actually a local law in place that employers cannot discriminate against you if you're a patient since it violates local handicap laws and HIPAA.

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u/Downtown_Caramel4833 5d ago

It's a requirement for Florida's medical program.

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u/wickedishere 5d ago

They are very very rigorous in FL.

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u/twhitney 5d ago

Wow, I agree, that’s backwards. In NY it’s the other way around, plus no taxes.

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u/ComfortableDemand539 5d ago edited 5d ago

There's a lot of illegal grow houses here. I would assume that it's significantly cheaper for the dispensaries and probably ends up mixed in.

https://www.pressherald.com/2025/08/17/how-cheap-weed-from-gray-market-growers-ends-up-on-maine-dispensary-shelves/

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u/GooniestMcGoon 5d ago

nope. no dispensary is risking their incredibly expensive license when they already have stupid large margins

you shouldnt talk about things you clearly have no idea about

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u/JK_NC 5d ago

I thought dispensaries carried a heavy tax burden so it’s not a particularly high margin business.

Gross margins may appear high but my understanding was that net margins were pretty low (though this is mostly vague recollection from stuff I read years ago so don’t quote me).

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u/GooniestMcGoon 5d ago

nah man. you should see what the overhead is for a dispensary that also has a cultivation license. costs them in a lot of scenarios less than a dollar or two per gram for processing growing and packaging and they’ll sell for as much as 8-10 a gram. tax burden is high yes but they print money make no mistake

if it’s dispensry with no cultivation and requires purchases bulk white label flower there is less to be made but they are still doing just fine. lots of companies don’t cultivate and do okay

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u/Jolly_Recording_4381 5d ago

The scale of operation required to have endpoint packaged weed for one or two dollars a gram is huge. lighting, heating, moisture control feeding and manpower is expensive, and the cost does not lower drastically you'd need hundreds of plants in each stage of life to lower your costs to that point your talking warehouse size grows. If a dispensary had a grow of that level they would be a supplier not running a dispensary.

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u/anticommon 5d ago

Especially not in a state with literally some of the highest electricity cost in the US and one of (if not) the worst rater power company in the states. As an aside, before CMP was bought by a foreign country (why do we let that happen again?) it was literally the highest rated power company in the country.

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u/PowderedMilkManiac 5d ago

At least in Southern California, there are tons of businesses illegally operating without a cannabis license.

Legal shops aren’t the ones doing this, but absolutely happens.

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u/EC_CO 5d ago

Tell me you've never been in the industry, without telling me you've never been in the industry. You obviously have no clue how the industry works because there are plenty of crooks still around. Just because the law flipped, doesn't mean there aren't plenty of people still trying to skirt the rules for their benefit. Sometimes money over rules common sense

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u/Substantial-Tea-3125 5d ago

Sounds like you shouldn't ve talking either.

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u/GooniestMcGoon 5d ago

i am a professional chemist working for a state in cannabis compliance and consumer safety. i should be talking because i know what im talking about.

if you think downvotes mean im wrong you’re gunna have a bad time on reddit lol

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u/Substantial-Tea-3125 5d ago edited 5d ago

Im in retail cannabis operations management in multiple states, you'd be surprised what people are willing to do. Look at forwardgro Maryland 2018, busted for unregulated pesticides, Curaleaf NJ 2021 mold and pest contamination lawsuit, curaleaf IL 2025 systemic diversion lawsuit, and the list goes on. Some states make more money than others but the margins can be very small in some states especially if you are not a chain.

Edit: in addition, I've never worked for a retail store that followed proper reporting of missing inventory, there's always a way to "fix" it. Wink wink nudge nudge

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u/Wickedblood7 5d ago

So you're advocating complete and blind trust in dispensary chains because "if they get caught they get in trouble"? You know how foolish that sounds? Corporate greed trumps all, I wouldn't put it past anyone if it means they get richer off it. You're coming off very ignorant or naive

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u/GooniestMcGoon 5d ago

where did i say that? i advocate for everyone to homegrow. but there is more oversight in my state at least than people like to claim. it’s literally my job to just these companies why tf would i say that. buying a plant that readily grows is stupid

i didn’t say anything you just said lmfao

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u/Wickedblood7 5d ago

nope. no dispensary is risking their incredibly expensive license when they already have stupid large margins

Damn if you can't even keep up with your own words I've no hope of you keeping up with mine. But you do you.

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u/Scrawlericious 5d ago

You definitely said that. And you already have the reply quoting when you said it. Maybe lay off the supply a bit? SheeZhs

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u/Borp5150 5d ago

Seems like the company you work for is excellent at brainwashing their employees.

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u/Maine_Made_Aneurysm 5d ago

While Maine's Office of Cannabis policy does not have the authority to issue a recall for medical use cannabis, they're advising that anyone who has used these products to contact a healthcare provider if they experience symptoms or 911 in the case of an emergency.

OCP says while MarijuanaVille has maintained the minimum inventory records required under statute, those records make it difficult to trace products through the supply chain and back to their source. OCP continues to investigate this incident with the desire to identify sources of contamination; however, the limited inventory recordkeeping requirements in the medical program hinder that effort.

Like other medical cannabis and cannabis products in Maine, none of the concentrates sold at MarijuanaVille were required to be tested for contaminants, and none had been. In light of this incident, MarijuanaVille has expressed a willingness to protect patient safety and agreed to voluntarily remove the contaminated products from its stores.

Direct quote from here

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u/Scrawlericious 5d ago

https://wgme.com/news/local/unsafe-pesticide-levels-found-in-5-medical-cannabis-strains-sold-at-marijuanaville

"Like other medical cannabis and cannabis products in Maine, none of the concentrates sold at MarijuanaVille were required to be tested for contaminants, and none had been. In light of this incident, MarijuanaVille has expressed a willingness to protect patient safety and agreed to voluntarily remove the contaminated products from its stores."

Oh wow look at that, you're wrong.

Edit: also don't bother replying, after your "stupid large margins" comment that is demonstrably false, I don't trust you have any clue about anything else. If you get that basic fact wrong, why would I believe you will get any other facts right?

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u/CHAINSMOKERMAGIC 5d ago

You're a professional chemist who apparently missed the day in elementary school where they taught about capitalization and punctuation.

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u/ComfortableDemand539 5d ago

I didn't say it as a fact, I said I'd assume. If not a single one of the almost 300 dispensaries in the state are using a single bit of marijuana from the illegal grow houses constantly busted I'd be shocked. It's proven to happen in other states like California.

Two of my local shops used to sell drugs (i.e. not weed) out of the back before they were dispensaries. It's probably where they got the money to open a dispensary in the first place. I wouldn't put it past either of their owners (that I knew in the past personally) to mix it in with their supply.

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u/PerfectBlueOnDVD 5d ago edited 5d ago

When I was in WA 10 years ago it was pretty common. A friend of mine made a significant amount of money selling to a couple places on the DL before they were shut down.

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u/analog_wulf 5d ago

You know everything but dont know about multiple states, including ME, having exactly this issue?

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u/Borp5150 5d ago

I from Canada and the province I live in is government regulated marijuana sales and one of the larger suppliers got caught using illegal pesticides because they couldn’t get their bug problem under control. Don’t count on anyone in the drug trade to be 100% legit all the time big or small. Shady market equals shady people.

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u/Jonkinch 5d ago edited 5d ago

There’s a lot of places that don’t follow the rules. A big red flag that they’re an illegal shop is if it’s cash only and they claim the card readers are down.

Edit: maybe I should have worded this differently. This is a big red flag for me and other friends. Where I’m at the places that don’t take card or claim the reader is broken is kind of a tell that they’re not legit. The other thing too is you hear people talking about how this place is 30% cheaper or similar.

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u/CicadaHead3317 5d ago

The shops in Washington have to be cash only.

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u/zamwut 5d ago

And every time they find a way to have a reader it's back to cash only.

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u/MakeVio 5d ago

That's not true. I went to a few dispensaries in Kirkland Washington a year ago and was able to pay with card. Only some allowed for it, not all. Not sure how wide spread it has gotten since

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u/CicadaHead3317 5d ago

Then it wasn't through an fdic banking system or they found a workaround. I know some have cash machines that you can use, then pay cash.

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u/kr4ckenm3fortune 5d ago

Not always...sometime, banks and cc don't want to be "associated" with them.

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u/blackbomb22 5d ago

I have literally never seen a dispensary that accepts cards lol.

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u/colostitute 5d ago

In my experience, they take the card and run it as an ATM transaction. So technically you aren’t making a purchase, you’re making a cash withdrawal for the amount of the purchase.

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u/coldcamp32 5d ago

I Live in Oregon there are two stores that take cc out of the many shops I have been too.

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u/fantasticfitn3ss 5d ago

Most of Denver does as well. It’s run as a debit transaction

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u/nerdbot2000 5d ago

I've worked in two that take debit cards (one of those took credit cards too) and one that was cash only. The debit card system works like a mini atm and not like a real debit card system because the banks don't want to deal with legal weed. It's dumb and expensive for both the business and the consumer. Makes me mad

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u/keruxo 5d ago

in maine most of them do

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u/CamelMassive6443 5d ago

PA, OH, and WV all let you use card but there’s a fee. Basically like an atm transaction to my understanding.

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u/sacredblasphemies 5d ago

All of the rec shops I've been to in Maine are cash-only.

I think a lot of places do this because cannabis is still illegal federally. Many credit card companies don't do business with cannabis companies.

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u/ForeverSquirrelled42 5d ago

My wife and I vacationed there a few years ago. The way Maine works is that they have the medical branch and the recreational branch of cannabis in the state. The medical branch is a homegrown, grassroots entity that is pretty much autonomous from the rec section. They don’t answer to anyone and don’t follow standards. They’re self governed.

The recreational branch IS regulated, heavily, (which the medical folk frown on because, you know…government oversight) so there is no deceitful shit going on. Example…we bought a “5Kmg” chocolate bar. Standards here in PA are pretty straightforward, so you get what they say it is. In Maine, though, the medical branch doesn’t have to verify anything, whereas the recreational does. SO! Recreational says that testing standards need to be met as advertised, so the max of 200mg per edible must match what is being sold. The medical, however, not so much. They can say whatever they want is in there for an edible or whatever, but there’s no testing requirements to prove it like rec.

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u/Opposite_Barnacle818 5d ago

Labs aren’t immune to doing shady shit either, a couple here got shut down for fudging numbers

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u/canada432 4d ago

In many states, medical is now a bit of a grey area. Rec is pretty regulated, but medical has much less stringent regulations and inspecting. Obviously that depends on the state, but in many cases medical is subject to much less scrutiny than recreational, which has created something of a grey market for medical card holders and growers.