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Dec 07, 2021, 11:37pmUpdated on Dec 10, 2021 By: News 12 Staff Connecticut green lit the state’s new retail marijuana industry on Tuesday. As early as late January, residents could be able to apply to grow or sell cannabis in Connecticut. On Tuesday, the state Social Equity Council conditionally approved new rules. The timeline is dependent on final approval, which is expected soon. Applicants will have 90 days to get paperwork in, pending approval from the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection. The window was originally 60 days, but council members feared that’s not enough time. They also want new applicants…

Nevada/Ohio, 27th November, 2021: Online Medical Card, a medical marijuana recommendation service provider recently extended its services to Nevada and Ohio. Residents of Nevada and Ohio can now easily get their hands on medical marijuana from the comfort of their homes as the clinic’s fully-licensed physicians will be providing recommendations via the telemedicine platform. Considering the illegality of recreational marijuana in Ohio, getting an MMJ card from Online Medical Card allows a patient suffering from a debilitating medical condition to get quick cannabis treatment. While recreational cannabis is legal in Nevada, restrictions on age, possession, cultivation, etc makes it troublesome…

The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to settle an emerging dispute on whether employers can be forced to reimburse workers for the cost of medical cannabis used to treat job-related injuries. To date, state courts have come to differing conclusions on the issue, a situation advocates say warrants intervention from the high court. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed last week, Empire State NORML and two other groups—the New York City Cannabis Industry Association and the Hudson Valley Cannabis Industry Association—say the justices should take up an appeal out of Minnesota, using it to settle the broader tension on the…

A top Rhode Island lawmaker on Thursday said that a bill to legalize marijuana in the Ocean State is nearly finalized, with just one major provision left to resolve following months of negotiations—and that he expects the issue to be resolved early in the new year. House Speaker Joe Shekarchi (D) told WPRI-TV that while legislators are “still not there” on a final product, he’s “happy to report that we’ve worked down to almost one issue that’s left, but it’s not there yet.” That issue relates to who should regulate the cannabis market—a new independent commission or the state Department…

CROMWELL — Municipal leaders are poised to discuss a possible yearlong moratorium on the sale of cannabis in town to allow officials to research the issue in depth in order to make an informed decision. Town Manager Anthony Salvatore is culling information and data related to the issue so he can present a recommendation at the meeting Wednesday night, he said. It’s up to council members whether they’ll take action that evening or consider the matter in future sessions. In a recent Facebook post, Councilman James Demetriades asked the public to submit opinions and other feedback on the proposal by…

When U.S. states and municipalities burn through their federal coronavirus relief money, taxes on legal weed will help blunt the budget pain. Cannabis tax revenue generated more than $2 billion in the U.S. last year and that could grow to $10 billion to $12 billion for states by 2030, exceeding tax revenue from alcohol, according to municipal-bond strategists at Barclays. This year, five states – New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Virginia and New Mexico – legalized recreational pot, bringing to 18 the number of states enacting law to regulate and tax cannabis for adult use. “We’ll have some long lasting…

Connecticut approved an increased limit of mold and yeast allowed in medical marijuana at one of the state’s two cannabis testing labs through private emails last year, documents show. At the request of AltaSci Labs, the state Department of Consumer Protection agreed to raise the total passing level of yeast and mold from 10,000 colony forming units per gram to 1 million per gram for the lab, according to August 2020 emails obtained via a Hearst Connecticut Media Group public records request. The request, which also included the addition of testing for a specific genus of mold, was the result…