(Picture: Getty/Summit Medical Marijuana/Facebook)

Trying to get people more engaged in being environmentally friendly can be an uphill struggle.

There they are, strolling down the street, dropping their fag ends and plastic bottles and crisp packets like it’s nothing.

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They don’t care that they’re littering because they’re too self-absorbed to give a crap.

But one company in Maine has come up with a genius idea to make residents more concerned about the effects of littering – and to get them actively involved in cleaning up their local environment.


Summit Medical Marijuna is offering people free weed in return for picking up litter.

(Picture: Summit Medical Marijuana/Facebook)

Dennis Meehan, Summit’s owner, says that the idea came from another centre in Colorado who had apparently got a great response.



All they required people to do was to grab a bin bag, fill it with any garbage found around the town and then return it to the centre – where they handed out bags of weed.

No charge.

No questions asked.

And Summit Medical Marijuana has had a similarly positive response.

‘Mainers rock!’ they wrote in a recent Facebook post.

‘You’re all amazing people. Anyone want to help do this statewide in a month or so? Thank you to the providers and the incredible Main folks for stepping up in a big, big way. We came up with the idea from Gardiner days of caring programme, and something similar to this in Colorado.

‘Stop by, get your free cannabis.’

The centre also used the clean-up as an opportunity to educate people on the natural healing powers of marijuana, which they call ‘the most beneficial plant known to human health’.

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