Can't they impeach these legislators for violating their oath to uphold the Maine Constitution?
I was thinking that bullets are cheaper than a trial, but on 2nd thought, a rope can be re-used.
The only reason that I'd skip the trial is that their public act of proposing such legislation is proof of their guilt. After all, don't they want to make our mere possession an act that justifies punishment?
You can in some states in which *Official Misconduct* legislation applies to public servants who use their position as public servants to violate the law. The logic for doing so is that they have conspired to violate the civil rights of those in their own jurisdiction, also denying those rights to out-of-state visitors in violation of the *full faith and credit* provision of the US Constitution, or that they have used their offices to commit a Deprivation of Civil Rights under color of law- both violations of federal statutes.
I don't know if Maine has an *official misconduct* provision it its state law code or not. But such statutes have been successfully applied in other states.