Jury Convicts Armed Drug Trafficker Caught in Nash County Operation – Department of Justice
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. – A federal jury convicted an Orangeburg, South Carolina man on Tuesday on charges of distribution of heroin and fentanyl, along with associated firearms violations including possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Anthony Cyquan Herring, 40, was stopped by Nash County Sheriff Keith Stone on I-95 southbound for speeding. Sheriff Stone smelled marijuana coming from the SUV, which other Deputies confirmed. The ensuing search of Herring’s SUV resulted in Deputies finding over thirty-six grams…
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Israeli Justice Minister signs regulation decriminalizing cannabis possession
Israel set to decriminalize cannabis | Leafly Link copied to your clipboard Leafly Leafly ® Loading… Where are you from? noyes Remember me for 30 days. I confirm that this is not a shared device. Darn! You’re not old enough to use Leafly. Redirecting you to By accessing this site, you accept the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. As federal cannabis reform slowly trudges forward in the United States, Israel is poised to decriminalize cannabis possession nationwide. On Wednesday, March 9, Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar signed a regulation that renders cannabis possession and personal consumption subject solely to an…
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CT medical marijuana dispensary has big plans to enter recreational market – Hartford Business Journal
Fine Fettle, a growing medical marijuana dispensary, has submitted applications to convert two of its shops into hybrid retail establishments, which would allow it to sell both medical and recreational cannabis, company officials confirmed to Hartford Business Journal. According to Fine Fettle’s Chief Operating Officer Benjamin Zachs, hybrid license applications have already been submitted for the company’s Newington and Willimantic locations. The company is still waiting on hybrid zoning approval in Stamford for its newest location, which opened last month, but when that happens the company plans to submit an application there as well. Zachs said the state’s regulations on…
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Buy a T-shirt, get some weed: Connecticut bill aims to end marijuana ‘gifting’ – Hartford Courant
“With the current law as it stands, more than 99% of all recreational marijuana in the state of Connecticut will eventually be produced by large Multi-State Operators who are headquartered in other locations,” said Brant Smith, of Hemp House Farms in Cheshire. “The farming community of Connecticut; who live, work, and pay taxes here, will be effectively shut out of this new industry.”
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Incarceration rates demographics in Connecticut | State | primepublishers.com – PrimePublishers.com
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Not only that, America also puts more people in prison per capita than in any other independent democracy. Even progressive states with low incarceration rates relative to the rest of the United States have more people in jail than most other places in the developed world. If individual states were counted as countries, many of them would have the highest incarceration rates in the world, ahead of actual entire other countries. The reasons behind the mass incarceration epidemic in the United States are multifaceted and complex. They are not…
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Congress continues DC cannabis ban (Newsletter: March 10, 2022) – Marijuana Moment
Top MD senator: put more marijuana details on ballot; Senate candidate at drive-thru dispensary; MO psychedelics bill; MT sales 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… Before you dig into today’s cannabis news, I wanted you to know you can keep this resource free and published daily by subscribing to Marijuana Moment on Patreon. We’re a small independent publication diving deep into the cannabis world and rely on readers like you to keep going. …
Read More »Buy a T-shirt, get some weed: CT bill aims to end marijuana ‘gifting’ – The Connecticut Mirror
Hundreds of shoppers filtered through rows of vendors selling novelty art and clothing earlier this year at High Bazaar, a Hamden festival where a “gift” of a marijuana product often accompanied the items they purchased. But the High Bazaar parties are on hold for now, after the town of Hamden claimed permitting violations. And while a hearing in that civil case is scheduled for later this week, the state legislature is considering a bill that would outlaw such “gifting.” Join in the work of CT Mirror You may not be on staff, but you can produce the journalism. House Bill…
Read More »Nelson W. Aldrich Jr., 86, Dissector of Old Money, Dies – The New York Times
Nelson W. Aldrich Jr., an author and magazine editor who unsparingly scrutinized his fellow heirs to America’s aristocracy, primarily in “Old Money: The Mythology of Wealth in America,” which one reviewer called “a self-help book for those who have too much,” died on Tuesday at his home in North Stonington, in southeastern Connecticut. He was 86. The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease, his daughter Liberty Aldrich said. Mr. Aldrich also edited “George, Being George” (2008), an oral history that lionized George Plimpton, a fellow patrician and literary journalist, and he wrote “Tommy Hitchcock: An American Hero” (1985), a biography…
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