‘Wild West’ Hits New York City: Unregulated Cannabis Dispensaries Are Booming
New York state has been in a strange state of legal limbo since cannabis was legalized there last spring. Criminal penalties for simple possession have been lifted, and those for home cultivation within permitted limits are set to be removed by the end of summer 2022. But as of yet, there is no regulatory structure in place for licensing and oversight of a commercial sector and unregulated cannabis sales are booming. Tremaine Wright, chair of the state’s newly formed Cannabis Control Board last week told local news site Gothamist that the regulations would be issued “this winter or early spring.” Some, however, have not…
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Federal And State Officials Collaborate On Marijuana Standardization Proposals At National Conference – Marijuana Moment
Vermont Democratic and Progressive lawmakers filed a new bill this week to decriminalize drug possession—a policy they hope will serve as a harm reduction tool that can also help to address racial disparities in enforcement. Reps. Logan Nicoll (D) and Selene Colburn (P) introduced the legislation, which would make possession and distribution of low levels of currently illicit drugs punishable by a $50 fine, without the threat of jail time. People could have the fee waived by completing a health screening that would be facilitated through a new treatment referral system. The bill would amend state statute on drug possession…
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5 New Haven students taken to hospital after eating drugged chocolate – theday.com
NEW HAVEN (AP) — Five students at a Connecticut magnet school were taken to the hospital as a precaution Friday after eating chocolate containing the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana and becoming ill, officials said. A 13-year-old student at the Bishop Woods School in New Haven gave the edibles to four other students, ages 12 and 13, acting Police Chief Renee Dominguez said. Some of the students vomited and some became lethargic, but all were conscious and alert when taken to the hospital, Mayor Justin Elicker said at a news conference. All are expected to fully recover.It was not immediately…
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Officials: Multiple students hospitalized after eating candy laced with THC – News 12 Long Island
Jan 15, 2022, 3:14amUpdated 4d ago By: News 12 Staff For a second day in a row, young students in Connecticut were sent to the hospital after eating candy believed to have been laced with THC – the active ingredient in marijuana. New Haven officials say a total of five seventh grade students have become ill. All five students are expected to be OK. In Hartford, two students are home after being hospitalized in a similar incident, but one 13-year-old remains in critical condition after reportedly ingesting fentanyl.
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Officials: Multiple students hospitalized after eating candy laced with THC – News 12 Bronx
Jan 15, 2022, 3:14amUpdated 17h ago By: News 12 Staff For a second day in a row, young students in Connecticut were sent to the hospital after eating candy believed to have been laced with THC – the active ingredient in marijuana. New Haven officials say a total of five seventh grade students have become ill. All five students are expected to be OK. In Hartford, two students are home after being hospitalized in a similar incident, but one 13-year-old remains in critical condition after reportedly ingesting fentanyl.
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Experts say fentanyl is to blame for increase in overdose deaths – WFSB
(WFSB) – Experts say the opioid crisis is getting worse during the pandemic. Overdoes deaths have increased, and the drug fentanyl is to blame. Eyewitness News spoke with recovery coaches who said the opioid crisis has shifted. Fentanyl is making it more difficult to treat people if they survive. Experts say the opioid crisis is getting worse during the pandemic. “The level of fentanyl that is available in our community right now is devastating,” said Dr. Jim O’Dea, Vice President of Behavioral Health Network at Hartford HealthCare. Experts say the opioid epidemic has reached another crisis level, with the pandemic…
Read More »Weed Plus: The Healing Mystique of Magic Mushrooms
The winter sun was beating down through the open windows of my older sister’s Porsche as we cruised down Pico Boulevard toward the beach, bumper to bumper with other cars in the westward traffic of a warm Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles. “That smells good,” she hollered to the guys in the next car over, pot smoke filling the space between lanes. They motioned to pass a joint through the open windows, my two best pals and I giggling in the back seat. I was 18 and by this point familiar with the terrain of a cannabis high, but I…
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Bristol City Council schedules public hearing for pair of ordinances looking to prohibit use of cannabis in parks – The Bristol Press
@DeanIWright BRISTOL – Bristol City Council scheduled a public hearing for a pair of ordinances looking to prohibit the use of cannabis in city park spaces. The hearing is set for Feb. 1 at 5 p.m. at the Bristol Ordinances Committee. The proposed ordinance amendment reads, “It shall be prohibited, at all times, for any individual to smoke and/or use any tobacco or cannabis product in any form while at a city park or recreational property.” The city already prohibits smoking and tobacco use in parks. The second ordinance amendment defines legally what a park or recreational property is as…
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