In the basement of a former train station, the faint smell of cannabis hangs in the air. Pacing around a squeaky clean kitchen, Brooke Hebert tosses ginger snap cookie dough into a bowl of sugar. When her pastries are laced with pot, they will be sold upstairs over the counter in a medical marijuana dispensary that resembles not a pharmacy, but a cafe.
How did this baker, a former pastry chef in a swank Texas resort, end up turning cannabis-infused ingredients into prescribed medical relief for patients at the Wellness Connection of Maine?
It’s high times for the medical marijuana industry in America. Across the country, 23 states and Washington, D.C. now allow legalized doses of marijuana for residents to ameliorate pain associated with disease. In Maine, where weed has been approved for the infirm since 1999, the industry is starting to innovate.
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