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That will soon change. Nevada is the latest state to allow cannabis consumption lounges as the drug gains mainstream acceptance. As regulators grapple with how to oversee the businesses, dispensaries are already making plans to open the first state-sanctioned lounges by mid-2022. The politics of pot lounges are changing along with shifting social mores around the substance. While Colorado and Washington were the first states to legalize adult use in 2012, it wasn’t until 2019 that Alaska first adopted a law on cannabis consumption lounges. Other states have since followed suit. Planet 13’s cannabis lounge will have no shortage of…

DC legalization hearing; PA cops sink medical marijuana patient protections; Interstate cannabis commerce push; Warren presses Biden on clemency 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… BREAKING: Journalism is often consumed for free, but costs money to produce! While this newsletter is proudly sent without cost to you, our ability to send it each day depends on the financial support of readers who can afford to give it. So if you’ve got a few…

Between April of last year and April of this year, more people than ever died of drug overdoses in Michigan and across the nation. The common denominator is the synthetic opioid fentanyl, which is linked to more deaths than any other drug. After a marijuana recall in Michigan and fentanyl-laced marijuana found in Connecticut, it’s important for consumers to know what they are buying. More than $200 million of marijuana was recalled in Michigan. 39 overdoses have happened with fentanyl-laced marijuana in Connecticut. “When you’re getting it off the street, there is no quality control. The individual that is getting…

As we reflect back on our many hard-earned victories of 2021, it is apparent that we have much to be thankful for. This year, the possession and use of cannabis by adults became legal in five additional states: Connecticut, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia. That means that an additional 42 million Americans have been liberated from the oppressive and failed policy of marijuana prohibition! We are also thankful that more states are taking actions to right the past wrongs of cannabis criminalization. In recent months, state officials in California, Illinois, New York, Virginia, and elsewhere have moved…

The federal government has generally taken a hands-off approach to marijuana enforcement in states that have chosen to legalize the plant. So why did a federal agency recently raid a small, home cannabis garden of a medical cannabis patient living on Indian territory in New Mexico? That’s a question that officials with the Pueblo of Picuris are asking following the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) raid in September. And the response from the agency, which falls under the Department of the Interior, has done little to clear things up. “Why is Picuris being discriminated against or picked on?” the governor…

“Edible cannabis items can resemble common snacks,” Geary wrote in the recent letter, “and children may be unable to tell the difference, so we urge adults to keep cannabis in child-resistant containers or packages, and stored in a locked compartment, drawer, or cupboard that is out of sight and out of reach.”

A Connecticut business incubator and the state’s largest workforce development agency have joined forces to help Black and Brown entrepreneurs join the state’s legal cannabis business. The state law that legalizes adult recreational use of cannabis includes a social equity provision to ensure minority participation in the business. The Connecticut Community Outreach Revitalization Program is a Hamden-based minority business incubator. It has joined with The WorkPlace to create the Alliance for Cannabis Equity. Ebong Udoma / WSHU Public Radio Fred McKinney, head of a minority entrepreneur center at Quinnipiac University spoke at the announcement of the Alliance for Cannabis Equity…

(WFSB) – The nation hit a deadly record for overdoses, mostly from fentanyl. In Connecticut, a state lab recently discovered marijuana laced with the opioid. Now, police fear fentanyl use will become the new heroin. Traci Eburg is especially thankful this week. “Three years being clean and sober,” she said. The grandmother says her drug of choice was heroin. For a while, she remained clean. But when her husband died three years ago, it sent her sobriety into a tailspin. “I started ripping right from the get-go. My goal was to join him. I didn’t want to be here. I…