More people sought drug recovery during pandemic | Connecticut News | wfsb.com – WFSB
(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…
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Connecticut Officials Warn of Fentanyl-Laced Marijuana – Green Entrepreneur
This story originally appeared on Benzinga Less than five months after recreational use of marijuana was legalized in Connecticut, the state Department of Public Health reported its concern about a series of overdose incidents among people who say they have only smoked cannabis, reported local media. According to a Nov. 15 bulletin from the New England HIDTA, between July 2021 and Oct. 26, public-health authorities reported 39 instances of patients who “exhibited opioid overdose symptoms” and needed shots of naloxone (the overdose-reversal drug). However, they denied using opioids. RELATED: Connecticut Is About to Become the 18th State to Legalize Recreational Marijuana One area hit hardest Several of these in…
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Concern about people driving high increases as recreational marijuana legalized – News 12 Connecticut
Nov 23, 2021, 12:18pmUpdated 2h ago By: News 12 Staff With recreational pot becoming legal in New York, health officials are expressing concern that there will be more people on the roads driving high. Experts say each person’s body reacts differently to the chemicals in marijuana. Police tell News 12 that pot should be treated like alcohol, with sobriety tests being used to check drivers. As for crashes, some studies show no increase after marijuana was legalized – while others found the opposite. A top AAA official says education is key. “There needs to be a rigorous public education campaign…
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Still no arrests in Armory marijuana grow | News | valleybreeze.com – Valley Breeze
PAWTUCKET – Police say they’re continuing their investigation of an illegal marijuana grow at the Pawtucket Armory Arts Center, two months after it was first discovered after an alarm went off Sept. 20 in the former Gamm Theatre space at 172 Exchange St. next to Tolman High School. Emily Rizzo, spokeswoman for Mayor Donald Grebien, said police are “still in the middle of the investigation” and she will issue an update on it when it’s available. The property, owned by New Hampshire-based developer Brian Thibeault, is subject to a civil forfeiture complaint by Attorney Gen. Peter Neronha, and he could…
Read More »ConnCORP, WorkPlace Team Up To Help Black And… – New Haven Independent
Nora Grace-Flood photo Social Equity Council Chairwoman Andrea Comer, ConnCORP Board Chair Carlton Highsmith, WorkPlace President and CEO Joseph Carbone, and BJM Solutions Founder Fred McKinney at Tuesday’s press conference. Black and Brown entrepreneurs will learn about “joint ventures” — and perhaps enter into one — with the help of a marijuana “manifesto” that’s in the works. That manifesto — a practical translation of and guide to Connecticut’s 300-paged legislation legalizing adult-use marijuana — is one of numerous initiatives of the Alliance for Cannabis Equity (ACE), a new partnership aimed at supporting minority business owners and workers interested in joining the state’s most highly anticipated upcoming new industry. The Connecticut Community Outreach Revitalization…
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Delta-8 THC Is All The Rage, But Its Legality Is In The Crosshairs – Cannabis & Hemp – United States – Mondaq News Alerts
Delta is very much in the news these days. The delta variant continues to spread, bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases to 40 million since the start of the pandemic. Delta Airlines made headlines when it recently announced that its unvaccinated employees will face $200 monthly increases on their health insurance premiums beginning November 1, citing steep costs to cover workers hospitalized with COVID. And then there’s a delta having nothing to do with the novel coronavirus. Delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is a psychoactive compound naturally occurring in hemp and cannabis and believed by many to be legal at the federal…
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CT Lab Confirms Marijuana Laced With Fentanyl is a New Public Safety Threat – NBC Connecticut
Inside the Connecticut Forensic Science Laboratory, they are looking at drug detection considered so potentially potent, its lab examiners have naloxone on standby. “Detecting fentanyl was not a big surprise to us it was just the manner in which it was found, Michael Rickenbach, deputy director of the chemical analysis section explained. “It was found laced on marijuana.” Rickenbach said fentanyl is one of the top five reported drugs brought in as evidence to the lab but this particular piece of evidence, connected with a recent overdose in Plymouth, is the first lab-confirmed case of fentanyl mixed with marijuana ever…
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Fentanyl-Laced Marijuana Eyed In Dozens Of Connecticut Overdoses; ‘Possibly The First Confirmed Case In The U.S.’ – CBS New York
HARTFORD, Conn. (CBSNewYork) – Health officials in Connecticut are issuing a warning about fentanyl-laced marijuana which is being eyed in a rash of overdoses throughout the state. Since July, 39 overdoses requiring the use of naloxone for revival have been reported. In each of the cases, the person involved said they had only smoked marijuana, but officials said they exhibited opioid symptoms. READ MORE: US Officials: Only A Matter Of Time Before Omicron COVID Variant Found In America A cluster of cases was reported in October in Plymouth, though officials say incidents have been dispersed across the state. A lab…
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