New England Cannabis Network brings medical marijuana event to Portland

This weekend, the region’s largest medical marijuana convention series makes its first sojourn north to Maine. The New England Cannabis Network will hold the two-day event at the University of Southern Maine, giving the public the opportunity to engage with medical marijuana dispensaries, doctors and caregivers, as well as more than 60 local and national cannabis industry businesses and retailers with products for sale.

A previously planned convention in Maine was pushed back due to scheduling troubles, according to Marc Shepard, co-founder of NECANN, but the success of earlier shows in Boston and Providence encouraged their push to have it here.

“The first one in Boston in February was over-the-top crazy. Even with all the snow on the ground, we had about 6,000 people come through in two days,” he said. “We had planned to have one in Portland in June, but we had so many scheduling problems we put...

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