Crime

Maine Admits Licensing Transnational Criminal Organizations to Grow Marijuana

Maine’s Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP) Director John Hudak told state legislators he is aware that his office has been issuing marijuana grow licenses to persons associated with Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCO). On Wednesday, Hudak told members of the state legislature’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee that his agency cannot deny the medical licensing requests.

Maine Marijuana Growers (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)