VIENNA - Timothy Smale, president of Remedy Compassion Center, one of three companies chosen to dispense medical marijuana in Maine, knows how desperate patients are to get access to prescription cannabis.

Smale suffers from debilitating migraines and uses marijuana to stem nausea and to help him sleep. His wife, and vice president of Remedy, serves as his caregiver, administering doses of marijuana to him when he is too sick to do it himself.

The couple, who have lived in Vienna since 2004, intend to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Wilton, serving residents of Franklin, Oxford and Androscoggin counties.

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