The federal funding was going to be allocated to school youth programs across the state, but the money is now being withheld because Maine allows medical marijuana to be administered to student patients on school grounds.
$3.3 million dollars in federal grant money earmarked for youth mental health programs across Maine was revoked this month, specifically because the state’s medical marijuana program allows the supervised use of legal weed products on school grounds.
According to the Lewiston Sun Journal, the millions in federal cash was part of a five-year grant awarded in 2018 that has provided $1.1 million a year for a statewide children's assistance program called Maine-AWARE. The state has already collected and used $2.2 million...
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