Maine lawmakers say a report on marijuana in Maine was intentionally and unlawfully withheld for nearly a year.
Lawmakers are calling for investigations after learning the cannabis report wasn’t delivered to them last February as it should have been.
That revelation came this week when Anya Trundy, director of legislative affairs in the Maine Department of Administrative and Financial Services, testified before the state Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee.
Lawmakers say she admitted intentionally not delivering the annual report.
She said she did it to avoid adding “flames to the fire” during last year’s legislative negotiations.
Rep. David Boyer, R-Poland, says the report is crucial when it comes to setting policy.
House Minority Leader Billy Bob Faulkingham, R-Winter Harbor, sent a letter to Trundy’s boss, Maine Department of Administrative and Financial Services commissioner, seeking answers.
The topic was then brought up in Friday’s Government Oversight Committee meeting.
“The type of issue being described by Representative Boyer and Representative Perkins is one where we could build out a timeline for you about what went on and how that proceeded in a way that ended up where we are,” said Peter Schleck, director of the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability.
The committee didn’t decide on Friday if it will investigate how this happened.
