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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…

Health officials in Connecticut have issued 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 case, the person involved said they had only smoked marijuana, but officials said they exhibited opioid symptoms. A cluster of cases was reported in October in Plymouth, though officials say incidents have been dispersed across the state. A lab test of some of the marijuana used in one of the Plymouth cases confirmed the presence of fentanyl, a potent and potentially…

NEW CANAAN — If residents want cannabis, they’ll have to go outside town limits to buy it. The Planning and Zoning Commission moved to ban all cannabis — recreational and medical — establishments this week, revising a previous moratorium that just addressed medical marijuana. The commission’s decision, which will go into effect Dec. 17, is consistent with the state law legalizing the use of cannabis earlier this year that gave towns the option to prohibit sales. The commission broached this topic before when it voted in April 2019 to permanently ban medical marijuana dispensaries and production facilities. The latest text…

Vernon School Superintendent Joseph Macary may mean well, but then so did the guy who closed the barn door after the horses got out. The other day Macary urged Vernon’s Planning and Zoning Commission to reject a zoning regulation that would allow marijuana retailing as close as 500 feet to school property. State and federal law require “drug-free zones” of 1,500 feet around schools, the superintendent said, and maintaining that distance is necessary “to protect our children.” Yes, God forbid if children on their way to and from school should discover that, like many other states, Connecticut has legalized marijuana…

Nov 19, 2021, 10:20pmUpdated 16h ago By: News 12 Staff Marijuana is legal but police are warning there is a chance it could be laced with fentanyl. This is the first time fentanyl has been found in marijuana in Connecticut, but police say it won’t be the last. Marijuana rarely causes an overdose, but it’s happened to dozens of people across the state since July. “We saw the overdoses with people who were saying they were just smoking weed and overdosed,” said Brian Foley, of Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection. One of those marijuana samples tested positive…

Health officials in Connecticut are warning residents about the possibility of fentanyl-laced marijuana circulating around the state.  iStock The Connecticut Department of Public Health on Thursday said they have received nearly 40 reports of people who experienced opioid overdose symptoms and required naloxone, a drug used to reverse narcotic overdoses, for treatment. The patients claimed to have only smoked marijuana and denied ingesting any type of opioid.  Authorities said the cases were “dispersed across Connecticut.”  In October, authorities managed to secure a sample of marijuana at a scene of one of the overdoses in Plymouth, Conn. An analysis of the sample…

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