Crystal Meth Trafficker Sentenced to 5 Years in Federal Prison – Department of Justice
Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ALEJANDRO CASTILLO, 42, a citizen of Belize last residing in Los Angeles, California, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking crystal methamphetamine to Connecticut. According to court documents and statements made in court, on September 22, 2020, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Hartford Task Force arrested an individual who possessed more than 400 grams of crystal methamphetamine. Investigators learned that the individual had received the meth from a…
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Utah Psychedelics And Mental Health Bill Heads To Governor’s Desk After Senate Approval – Marijuana Moment
The Maryland House of Delegates on Friday passed bills to put marijuana legalization on the state’s 2022 ballot and set initial rules if voters approve the reform in November. The chamber had debated the proposals, rejected several GOP-led amendments and advanced them to third reading on Wednesday. Now lawmakers have given final passage to the referendum and implementation measures—in votes of 96-34 and 92-37, respectfully—sending them to the Senate. “We are at the beginning of an important process where we begin to look again at how we have treated this substance, cannabis,” Del. Luke Clippinger (D), sponsor of both bills,…
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Maryland House Approves Bills To Put Marijuana Legalization On November Ballot And Set Rules If Voters Approve – Marijuana Moment
The Maryland House of Delegates on Friday passed bills to put marijuana legalization on the state’s 2022 ballot and set initial rules if voters approve the reform in November. The chamber had debated the proposals, rejected several GOP-led amendments and advanced them to third reading on Wednesday. Now lawmakers have given final passage to the referendum and implementation measures—in votes of 96-34 and 92-37, respectfully—sending them to the Senate. “We are at the beginning of an important process where we begin to look again at how we have treated this substance, cannabis,” Del. Luke Clippinger (D), sponsor of both bills,…
Read More »How Anti-Weed Propaganda Has Morphed Throughout History
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Although cannabis has become normalized throughout popular culture, anti-weed propaganda still perpetuates the social stigma that has long dampened the reputation of this incredibly resourceful plant. Shutterstock Gone are the days of flat out unhinged propaganda that portrayed cannabis as a violence-inducing, family-destroying, and all-around life-ruining drug. Still, deeply rooted within the hysteria of anti-weed propaganda is unbridled racism, sexism, and a narrative built on nothing but lies and fears. Propaganda and misinformation is still there to be thwarted in the present day, but you’ll realize just how far the cannabis movement…
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USDA Seeks White House Approval For Another Hemp Survey Involving 20000 Respondents – Marijuana Moment
The Maryland House of Delegates on Friday passed bills to put marijuana legalization on the state’s 2022 ballot and set initial rules if voters approve the reform in November. The chamber had debated the proposals, rejected several GOP-led amendments and advanced them to third reading on Wednesday. Now lawmakers have given final passage to the referendum and implementation measures—in votes of 96-34 and 92-37, respectfully—sending them to the Senate. “We are at the beginning of an important process where we begin to look again at how we have treated this substance, cannabis,” Del. Luke Clippinger (D), sponsor of both bills,…
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Where does Biden’s Supreme Court nominee stand on marijuana legalization? Here’s what we found
Where does Biden’s Supreme Court nominee stand on marijuana legalization? Here’s what we found | 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. President Biden is expected to nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill the Supreme Court seat of retiring justice Stephen Breyer in a formal announcement later this afternoon. If…
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Connecticut Among Least Sinful States In The Nation: Report – Yahoo News
CONNECTICUT — Thomas Hooker, prominent Puritan minister and leader of the colonists who founded Connecticut, would be proud. A new report names the Nutmeg State among the least sinful in the country. What does that even mean? Personal finance site WalletHub compared the 50 states across seven key categories, based on the Roman Catholic Church’s traditional seven deadly bad boys: “Anger & Hatred,” “Jealousy,” “Greed,” “Lust,” “Vanity,””Laziness” and “Excesses & Vices.” That last catch-all category includes fast food joints per capita, marijuana use, coffee drinking, debt-to-income ratio and the number of opioid prescriptions dispensed. Connecticut ranked 40th overall in sinfulness,…
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‘Manifesto’ creates a resource for recreational marijuana job seekers in Connecticut – WSHU
Two local workforce organizations in Connecticut released plans Thursday to help black and under-represented communities understand the state’s recreational marijuana industry. The WorkForce and the Alliance for Cannabis Equity said its Cannabis Manifesto will help train businesses owners and workers for the field. Joseph Carbone, president and CEO of the Bridgeport-based The WorkPlace, said he sees the manifesto as a way of boosting job growth in the cannabis industry. “I want them to have the courage to take a look at it and to believe in themselves because the system will help them – be it employment or investment, the…
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