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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Health officials in Connecticut have issued a warning regarding fentanyl-laced marijuana after dozens of overdoses. The Connecticut Overdose Response Strategy and the Connecticut Department of Public Health, have recently received reports of overdose patients who have exhibited opioid overdose symptoms and required naloxone for revival.  The patients denied any opioid use and claimed to have only smoked marijuana, the department said. Recent incidents where only marijuana use was reported but naloxone was required: July 2021 – 11 cases August 2021 – nine cases September 2021 – nine cases Oct.1 – 26, 2021 – 10 cases Several jurisdictions had multiple overdoses…