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A Fairfield County gang member has been sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for racketeering and witness tampering. Shakale Brantley, also known as “Charlie Wilson,” “Kellz,” and “Man Man,” age 22, of Bridgeport, was sentenced Wednesday, Jan. 26, said Leonard Boyle, US Attorney for the District of Connecticut. According to court documents and statements made in court, the FBI, ATF, DEA, U.S. Marshals Service, and Bridgeport Police have been investigating multiple Bridgeport-based gangs whose members are involved in narcotics trafficking, murder, and other acts of violence. Brantley was a member of the Original North End (“O.N.E.”), a gang…

United States: The Week In Weed: January 28, 2022 28 January 2022 Seyfarth Shaw LLP To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. We’re just one step away from medical cannabis in Mississippi. South Dakota’s legislature is hard at work on medical marijuana licensing. And South Carolina has a medical cannabis bill in the works. Delaware, meanwhile, is looking at legalizing adult-use marijuana. And finally, we’ve got another Girl Scout cookie story. mississippi Could…

MS medical marijuana to gov; MN gov’s budget has legalization funds; SC begins medical cannabis debate; CO psychedelics measures; WI GOP medical bill Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Free to read (but not free to produce)! We’re proud of our newsletter and the reporting we publish at Marijuana Moment, and we’re happy to provide it for free. But it takes a lot of work and resources to make this happen. If you…

Jan 28, 2022, 12:56amUpdated 10h ago By: News 12 Staff There is frustration and disappointment as New Jersey misses another deadline for recreational marijuana sales. But the head of the state’s leading cannabis industry group says that he still thinks marijuana will be for sale to the public by the summer. “There is a sense of frustration because we just wish that things had moved faster,” says Edmund DeVeaux of the New Jersey CannaBusiness Association. The state commission set up to regulate legal cannabis had wanted recreational weed to be available for sale to the public by Feb. 22, but…

BRISTOL – A city man is scheduled to appear before a judge next week on charges he was over the legal drinking limit and had PCP and marijuana in his system when he caused a Christmas Day crash that seriously injured two young children. Jorge Borrero, 28, faces two counts of second-degree assault with a motor vehicle and one count each of operating under the influence, operating under suspension, failure to drive right and using a motor vehicle without permission. The 28-year-old is free on $150,000 bond and is expected to answer to the charges next Thursday in New Britain…

When New York State legislators passed the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) in March of 2021, the legislative intent of the bill was clear—“generate significant new [tax] revenue” and “make substantial investments in communities and people most impacted by cannabis criminalization to address the consequences of such criminalization.”  While the tax revenue plan was cut and dry—a 13 percent gross tax on cannabis products (9 percent state and 4 percent municipal)—how the Cannabis Control Board (CCB) and Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) would accomplish its Social and Economic Equity Plan has been much less clear.  At the beginning of…

The state Attorney General is seeking court approval to investigate the drugmaker, accusing it of overly-high prices that have a “devastating impact” on diabetes-sufferer’s lives. Meanwhile, legal marijuana bills are advancing in Delaware, Mississippi and South Dakota. Stat: Michigan Attorney General Pursues Investigation Into Lilly’s Insulin Prices As anger grows over the cost of prescription medicines, the Michigan Attorney General is seeking court approval to launch an investigation into Eli Lilly (LLY) over insulin drug prices that the state says are having “devastating impact” on consumers. The drug maker was accused of charging “grossly” excessive prices for three different insulin…

MS medical marijuana to gov; MN gov’s budget has legalization funds; SC begins medical cannabis debate; CO psychedelics measures; WI GOP medical bill Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Free to read (but not free to produce)! We’re proud of our newsletter and the reporting we publish at Marijuana Moment, and we’re happy to provide it for free. But it takes a lot of work and resources to make this happen. If you…