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United States: The Week In Weed: January 21, 2022 24 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. Mississippi continues its march (crawl?) towards legalizing medical marijuana.  Ohio legalization advocates collect more signatures.  A new governor in Virginia may mean changes in the state’s cannabis program.  Could hemp help in the fight against COVID?  And finally, marijuana makes its way into a political ad. MISSISSIPPI Regular readers know we’ve…

Seven months into the legal recreational marijuana landscape, Connecticut’s previously underground cannabis community is enjoying public consumption parties where growers show off flower specimens in what they believe is a gray area in the law. Groups such as the CT CannaWarriors, High Bazaar and the New England Craft Cannabis Alliance, which have been advocating for years for full legalization as nearby states, including Massachusetts, opened recreational sales, now sponsor a weekly out-in-the-open vendor assembly and smoke-in on private property in Hamden. And if people want to take home small plastic baggies of dried marijuana flowers, gummies or chocolates, that’s between…

Editor’s note: On Friday, Feb. 18, a High Bazaar organizer said on social media the event would stop “until the Town of Hamden approves us for proper permitting.” A judge had ruled the bazaar at 18 Crest Way could not continue without town permits one day after the town applied for an injunction. Seven months into the legal recreational marijuana landscape, Connecticut’s previously underground cannabis community is enjoying public consumption parties where growers show off flower specimens in what they believe is a gray area in the law. Groups such as the CT CannaWarriors, High Bazaar and the New England Craft…

Best Cannabis Stocks In The US In 2022 As the markets continue a decline to start 2022 are you looking for ways to invest in top marijuana stocks this year. Because of delays in Congress establishing federal cannabis reform most of the best cannabis stocks to buy have declined significantly in the market. Now after almost an entire year of declines cannabis investors are starting the year looking for a new catalyst. In 2021 many leading cannabis companies delivered strong revenue growth and expanded across the growing US market on the state level. According to a recent report from Statista…

A Connecticut man has admitted to distributing fentanyl following a lengthy investigation by police in Hartford County, authorities announced. US Attorney Leonard Boyle announced that Rocky Hill resident Sean Thomas, age 32, has pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl. An investigation was launched in 2020 as police in Hartford investigated Thomas and other alleged dealers for distributing fentanyl and marijuana. Prosecutors said that as part of the investigation, an undercover officer purchased marijuana from an employee at Puff Paradise, a smoke shop on New Britain Avenue owned by Thomas. …

Ballot Measures Update Sixty-four statewide measures have been certified for the 2022 ballot in 30 states so far. No new measures were certified for the ballot last week. Signatures have been submitted and are pending verification for six additional initiatives in Alaska, Florida, Massachusetts, and Ohio: States in session Thirty-eight state legislatures—Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin—are in regular…

By Emilie Ruscoe (January 21, 2022, 8:23 PM EST) — A Connecticut woman has sued Home Depot in federal court, accusing the company of improperly putting her on medical leave when she revealed she was using medical marijuana to treat her PTSD. Plaintiff Jasmine Michelle Tracy said in her suit, filed Thursday, that she was hired to work at a Manchester, Connecticut, Home Depot in May 2020. About a week later, she told her supervisor that she had post-traumatic stress disorder for which she was prescribed both a pharmaceutical drug for managing anxiety and medical marijuana. At the time, Tracy…