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The Maryland House of Delegates on Friday passed bills to put marijuana legalization on the state’s 2022 ballot and set initial rules if voters approve the reform in November. The chamber had debated the proposals, rejected several GOP-led amendments and advanced them to third reading on Wednesday. Now lawmakers have given final passage to the referendum and implementation measures—in votes of 96-34 and 92-37, respectfully—sending them to the Senate. “We are at the beginning of an important process where we begin to look again at how we have treated this substance, cannabis,” Del. Luke Clippinger (D), sponsor of both bills,…

Mark Dupuis stands with some of his cannabis processing equipment in the proposed home of Richter Extracts at 69 Neck Road, Westfield. (MICHAEL BALLWAY / THE WESTFIELD NEWS) WESTFIELD — The City Council unfairly discriminated against a social equity applicant when it denied host community agreements for two marijuana businesses, the applicant said this week. Mark Dupuis, the owner of Richter Extracts and a shareholder in Richter Cannabis, both of which were proposed for a vacant factory at 69 Neck Road, said he believes his arrest record was held against him when the council voted 9-2 on Feb. 17 not…

Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ALEJANDRO CASTILLO, 42, a citizen of Belize last residing in Los Angeles, California, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking crystal methamphetamine to Connecticut. According to court documents and statements made in court, on September 22, 2020, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Hartford Task Force arrested an individual who possessed more than 400 grams of crystal methamphetamine.  Investigators learned that the individual had received the meth from a…

The Maryland House of Delegates on Friday passed bills to put marijuana legalization on the state’s 2022 ballot and set initial rules if voters approve the reform in November. The chamber had debated the proposals, rejected several GOP-led amendments and advanced them to third reading on Wednesday. Now lawmakers have given final passage to the referendum and implementation measures—in votes of 96-34 and 92-37, respectfully—sending them to the Senate. “We are at the beginning of an important process where we begin to look again at how we have treated this substance, cannabis,” Del. Luke Clippinger (D), sponsor of both bills,…

The Maryland House of Delegates on Friday passed bills to put marijuana legalization on the state’s 2022 ballot and set initial rules if voters approve the reform in November. The chamber had debated the proposals, rejected several GOP-led amendments and advanced them to third reading on Wednesday. Now lawmakers have given final passage to the referendum and implementation measures—in votes of 96-34 and 92-37, respectfully—sending them to the Senate. “We are at the beginning of an important process where we begin to look again at how we have treated this substance, cannabis,” Del. Luke Clippinger (D), sponsor of both bills,…

The Maryland House of Delegates on Friday passed bills to put marijuana legalization on the state’s 2022 ballot and set initial rules if voters approve the reform in November. The chamber had debated the proposals, rejected several GOP-led amendments and advanced them to third reading on Wednesday. Now lawmakers have given final passage to the referendum and implementation measures—in votes of 96-34 and 92-37, respectfully—sending them to the Senate. “We are at the beginning of an important process where we begin to look again at how we have treated this substance, cannabis,” Del. Luke Clippinger (D), sponsor of both bills,…

CONNECTICUT — Thomas Hooker, prominent Puritan minister and leader of the colonists who founded Connecticut, would be proud. A new report names the Nutmeg State among the least sinful in the country. What does that even mean? Personal finance site WalletHub compared the 50 states across seven key categories, based on the Roman Catholic Church’s traditional seven deadly bad boys: “Anger & Hatred,” “Jealousy,” “Greed,” “Lust,” “Vanity,””Laziness” and “Excesses & Vices.” That last catch-all category includes fast food joints per capita, marijuana use, coffee drinking, debt-to-income ratio and the number of opioid prescriptions dispensed. Connecticut ranked 40th overall in sinfulness,…