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thousands of Mainers dealing with a variety of debilitating conditions are turning to a non traditional form of medicine to treat those symptoms medical marijuana with a doctor's recommendation you can purchase the drug from an independent caregiver or one of the state's eight dispensaries jerry stackhouse has been looking into Maine's medical marijuana industry and joins us with more of his special report Terry thanks John and Catherine the state's largest distributor of medical marijuana wellness connected of Maine owns half of Maine's dispensaries and serves about 8,000 patients statewide qualifying conditions continue to widen chronic pain cancer ALS HIV Alzheimer's disease and now post-traumatic stress disorder are all symptoms for which a patient can seek treatment with medical marijuana however industry leaders say that legalization for recreational use is inching closer this medicines work changes people's lives it's it's amazing from seed to sale Maine's medical marijuana industry is highly regulated we take those and immediately assign them a tracking number that follows that plant all the way through its life cycle and actually all the way to the dispensary I'm out the door so when Sharon walks out the door your package has a little bar code on it and I can use that number to trace back every phase in that plant's life from a secure facility in central Maine the wellness connections supply of medical marijuana is grown harvested and then shipped to dispensaries like this one in Brewer it's it's very exciting to be in on the the very early stages of what is going to be a big big industry in Maine Becky decoy stir is the co-founder of wellness connection the company currently employs about 60 people I think that you know legalization is coming and and hopefully it builds off of the successful regulation and the model of dispensary operate that that we've already started here in me most patients purchase one ounce of marijuana each month Sharon Paul of old town says smoking it allows her to live in comfort and digest medications for her HIV that sometimes disagree with her stomach this helps me to keep it in and it's working so and I've been positive for 11 years so with the with this it helps me to keep my medicine down and to be healthier with my HIV 10 then I have ever been before one of our members came in and said this is probably the last time I'm going to visit you because my cancer is in remission and I find that my appetite is back and I don't need this anymore that's like that was amazing last week marijuana advocates from legalized main filed paperwork for a 2016 ballot initiative that would legalize recreational use of the drug wellness connection leaders say they hope to serve recreational users too but would prioritize patient care I think at first we'll still only take medical and then maybe work on opening it up for recreational later on because there's still we still have to provide for the people that meet for medical use and if we're running out by providing it for recreational we're not really doing good how far are we from legalization to get two years two years I think another maine-based advocacy group the Marijuana Policy Project is working on a similar ballot initiative for now wellness connection leaders along with independent caregivers are lobbying state legislators to allow doctors to determine conditions for recommendation if you'd like to see the story again or part one of our special report on Maine's Medical Marijuana Program just head to our website wabi TV and click on special reports