Sheriff Dion has gained national attention for his position as one of a few lone rangers nationwide to openly support medical marijuana use for qualifying patients. Dion believes that since voters in Maine approved medical marijuana use at the polls last November, that the state should help distribute the drug to authorized patients. Dion told CNN that the question was an ethical decision about the nature of dignity and compassion and not simply a legal one. The law is about making sure we follow the rules.
Justice seeks the exceptions.
And for me, supporting medicinal marijuana was a journey to that exception. The head of Maine s Drug Enforcement Agency, Roy McKinney, disagrees. That s not our business. Our business is to identify and arrest drug dealers. A bill introduced in the Maine Legislature in March by Mainers for Medical Rights would have provided for confiscated marijuana to be distributed by the Drug Enforcement Agency to registered patients.