The Town of Rockport will be holding a marijuana forum Thursday, May 25, to better understand the new state law and what it means to municipalities.  Some of the topics that will be discussed:

• What are other municipalities doing?
• What makes towns a special case?
• How does a town deal with this issue when the vote was so close?
• What is the definition of social club, etc.?
• What is the town’s responsibility with regard to growth and selling?

The forum will take place at 7 p.m. in the Rockport Opera House Meeting room with the Select Board, Planning Board, Ordinance Review Committee, Zoning Board of Appeals, and others. It will be streamed live at livestream.com/Rockportmaine/events/7408793

Speakers will include Maine legislators, Paul McCarrier, who heads up Legalize Maine, and Phil Saucier, an attorney with Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer and Nelson.

The2016 citizens initiative allows recreational consumption of pot, but it is still not legal for you to buy or sell pot, unless you are a medical patient.

The citizens’ initiative allowed for nine months of rule- and regulation-making that began Jan 30. That nine-month timeframe was extended by the Legislature an extra three months so the anticipated start date for legal sales of recreational marijuana is Feb 1, 2018.

Read more: What you need to know about Maine's new marijuana law, effective Jan. 30