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Apr 08, 2022, 1:05amUpdated 3h ago By: News 12 Staff Several students in Goshen were taken to the hospital Thursday after ingesting an unknown substance, according to the district superintendent. Goshen School District Superintendent Kurtis Kotes says the Goshen High School students presented themselves to the school nurse after experiencing symptoms of pale skin, elevated heart rate, slurred speech, unsteady gait, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. News 12 was told the students ate a candy-like substance that turned out to be some form of edible drug. Kotes said the symptoms varied from student to student. He added that the students…

The following article was first posted in the Behavioral Health section of Hartford Healthcare’s website. It is reposted here with permission. A Connecticut legislative committee’s recent action to provide $3 million to explore psychedelic-assisted therapy using doctor-supervised MDMA or psilocybin is a great step forward in the field, according to two Institute of Living physicians. Both Dr. Godfrey Pearlson, founding director of the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center at Hartford HealthCare’s Institute of Living and an expert in the fields of marijuana and of psychosis, and Dr. Mirjana Domakonda, director of the Clinical Trials Unit at the Institute of Living, greeted…

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A Colorado House committee on Tuesday approved a bill aligning state statute to legalize MDMA prescriptions if and when the federal government ultimately permits such use. Meanwhile, the House Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Committee also rejected separate legislation to create a psychedelics review panel to study substances like psilocybin and DMT and issue recommendations on possible policy changes. But that measure’s defeat came at the request of its sponsor, who asked members to “kill my bill” to give voters a chance to weigh in on broader psychedelics reform initiatives that activists are actively pursuing for the November…

If you haven’t noticed Connecticut being outpaced by neighboring states when it comes to fully legalized marijuana, there may be pot proponents out there who’ll wonder what you’ve been smoking. While a Nutmeg State-sanctioned medical marijuana program has been up and running for years, many government leaders have been slow to let go of a social stigma that has hindered efforts to legalize sales for recreational use. But Hartford city councilor and defense attorney Tiana Hercules is out to change that, and she has friends in high places.

By Laura Glesby, New Haven Independent April 4, 2022 Find out what’s happening in New Havenwith free, real-time updates from Patch. Planners passed forward a map of suggested places to allow cannabis sales in town — while recommending that alders mellow out rather than rush to finalize rules, and that they redo the math calculating distances from dispensaries to public schools. The City Plan Commission offered those recommendations after an hours-long debate Wednesday night. Find out what’s happening in New Havenwith free, real-time updates from Patch. Commissioners met to weigh in on a proposal that would set the rules for how local…

A Maryland House of Delegates panel on Monday took up a Senate-passed bill to create a state fund that could be used to provide “cost-free” access to psychedelics like psilocybin, MDMA and ketamine for military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury. The bill was considered in the House Appropriations Committee, where members heard testimony about the necessity of the reform. The panel’s discussion comes weeks after the Senate unanimously passed the legislation from Sen. Sarah Elfreth (D). This development also comes days after the Maryland legislature agreed to put marijuana legalization on the state’s November…

Since its inception in 2013, Connecticut’s medical marijuana program has been the gold standard in the nation. The program provides access to medical marijuana for 53,000 patients in Connecticut, many of whom can find relief for their symptoms only through medicinal cannabis products. Unlike the recently launched recreational marijuana program, medical marijuana is highly regulated and medically delineated. Patients receive treatment and counseling from licensed pharmacists trained in the pharmacology of cannabis and its interactions with other drugs and in how to align a patient’s disease state with the most appropriate cannabis products and delivery methods. Supposedly, medical marijuana is…