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OCP
Target: Feb 2027Maine OCP-aware dispensary platform
Native compliance hooks for Maine Office of Cannabis Policy rules. METRC traceability, the 14% adult-use cannabis sales tax that REPLACES the 5.5% general rate rather than stacking on it, the 5.5% that medical patient sales still pay (36 MRSA §1760(5) expressly withholds the prescription-medicine exemption from cannabis), OCP reconciliation cadence, and the medical-caregiver / adult-use lane separation Maine uniquely supports.
Regulator
Maine Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP)
https://www.maine.gov/dafs/ocp ↗Your rules, handled
Maine’s cannabis retail rules — what the OCP requires at the counter, how sales are reported to the state, and what the taxes are — are researched from the regulator’s own pages and coded into the register. You run the shop; the rules are handled at the sale.
At the register, as of September 2026: 14% on adult-use cannabis sales (in place of the 5.5% general rate), and 5.5% (8% on prepared food) on sales to qualifying patients; no local cannabis tax, and the cultivation excise is paid upstream.
Coverage here — honestly
Maine coverage is written against OCP rules: the bulletins, the medical-caregiver-vs-storefront topology (Maine is unusually broad here), the medical-vs-adult-use tax split (14% adult-use, 5.5% to a qualifying patient, and 14% again when medical-programme product is sold to someone who is not one), and the METRC-cadence reconciliation requirements. We keep it current as the OCP moves, and where something isn’t built for ME yet we say so before you sign.
Operator playbooks
Compliance ops playbook
State traceability reconciliation — the daily, weekly, monthly discipline
Buyer scorecard
Picking a cannabis POS: the 7-question scorecard
Migration playbook
POS migration: a 4-week playbook for cannabis dispensaries
Operations deep-dive
Cash discipline at a cannabis dispensary: variance, escalation, audit
Maine cannabis retail — common questions
- Who regulates cannabis retail in Maine?
- Maine Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP) is the state cannabis regulator for Maine. Official site: https://www.maine.gov/dafs/ocp.
- What seed-to-sale track-and-trace system does Maine use?
- Maine uses METRC (Franwell) for seed-to-sale traceability — the de-facto standard across most regulated states. CannAgent maps its inventory and transfer events to METRC's required fields.
- What cannabis taxes apply to retail in Maine?
- At the register, as of September 2026: 14% on adult-use cannabis sales (in place of the 5.5% general rate), and 5.5% (8% on prepared food) on sales to qualifying patients; no local cannabis tax, and the cultivation excise is paid upstream.
- Is CannAgent available for Maine dispensaries?
- Not yet — Maine is not open to new stores. Target: February 2027. Join the waitlist. Targets, not promises. Each state's rules come first. Joining the ME list gets you one email when Maine opens.
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