Chamber 23 is a membership network for Maine cannabis businesses, with a media studio at the centre of it. Growers, brands, retail shops and the service companies around them. It exists to bridge that gap — and to make sure the value that comes from bridging it stays here.
Start the conversation Read the planThe first annual decline in state history. The growth phase is over.
$16.68 a gram down to $6.62. It hasn't found a floor.
Demand didn't leave. Sellers did — caregivers are down 53%.
The one segment holding price. Maine's craft base is built for it.
Five years ago Maine couldn't grow enough weed. Harvests sold before media could even be produced — and small brands were spending on media anyway, to sell product that didn't need selling.
The market flipped. Supply is high, the bubble burst, and now — exactly when demand needs building — almost nobody is spending on media at all. Every operator retreated to their own county to wait it out.
Individually, nobody can afford to market their way out of a down market. Collectively, we can raise the low tide itself — so every boat in this state sits higher.
Maine grows cannabis that competes with anywhere in the country, and it's the state's best-kept tourism secret. Out-of-state patients can legally buy here and product can't be shipped out, which makes this a destination market whether or not anyone is treating it like one.
Properly lit, properly shot photo and video of your product, facility and process — delivered to you, yours to use anywhere. Most operators here are running on phone photos taken under grow lights.
Everyone in the network is an operator or works directly with them. What moves, what doesn't, who's reliable, what a shop is actually paying. That conversation is worth the dues on its own.
Placement starts with what sells where. You get introduced by people the shop already deals with, not by a cold call.
Design, packaging, print, legal, accounting — vetted partners who price better because we bring them clients. We take nothing from that work.
We never take a cut of your sales. Not a percentage, not a referral fee, not a placement charge. Dues cover the room at cost — profit comes from what we sell outward.
Forming right now, in the open. Nothing here is finished — the parts with blanks in them are blank because they get decided with the founding members rather than handed to them.
Touring and negotiating — not signing. What members need out of a space is worth hearing before it's chosen.
Four shops, six brands. Nobody is charged until that threshold is met — and if it isn't, every commitment is released.
October is buildout and soft launch — room rigged, first highlights shot. Hard launch in November, once the founding group is set and harvest chaos is over.
All of it is public, including the financials and what the founder gets paid. If it doesn't hold up, it should be easy for you to find that out.
That isn't a courtesy, it's the design. Ten commitments by 31 October or this doesn't proceed — and an hour of your time is the whole ask at this stage.
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