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Colorado voters could have the chance next year to vote on legalizing possession and personal cultivation of psychedelics, and creating a system of licensed businesses to produce psilocybin, DMT, ibogaine and mescaline for supervised use at “healing centers.” A national advocacy group recently filed two separate psychedelics reform initiatives for Colorado’s 2022 ballot, both of which are titled the Natural Medicine Healing Act. The first would legalize the possession, cultivation and an array of entheogenic substances, as well as establish a regulatory model for psychedelics therapy. The other is a similar, but somewhat more dialed-back proposal that would initially legalize…

Dec 16, 2021, 12:59pmUpdated 4h ago By: News 12 Staff Are you thinking of opening a marijuana business? You’re not alone.  Yesterday morning, hundreds applied for licenses after New Jersey began taking applications which include recreational facilities.    In April of this year, a medical dispensary in Neptune opened its doors. Zen Leaf became only one of a few shore area dispensaries offering medical marijuana and that will change soon.   Last week, New Jersey awarded 30 new licenses to medical facilities more than doubling the current number of 23 operating.    Applications for dispensaries will begin to be accepted in March.  Related Stories Share…

Most U.S. employers already require their employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or have plans to require them to do so soon. That’s according to a recent survey conducted by London-headquartered insurance broker and advisory firm Willis Towers Watson. Advertisement But vaccine mandates aren’t so popular among cannabis employers, most of whom are too small to face government directives. Cannabis employers that are following vaccine-or-test rules often say they are simply following vaccine decrees required by state and local regulators. The reluctance to impose a vaccine-or-test regimen likely reflects a libertarian streak that’s unsurprising in an industry that often flouts…

Dec 17, 2021, 2:15amUpdated on Dec 26, 2021 By: News 12 Staff Municipalities that have decided not to sell recreational marijuana have two weeks to formally tell the state. The deadline to submit laws to the state’s Office of Cannabis Management is Dec. 31. Towns that opted out on Long Island include Hempstead, Oyster Bay, Smithtown, Islip, East Hampton and Shelter Island. Towns that have decided they will allow recreational weed include Riverhead, Babylon and Brookhaven.

By Katryna Perera (December 15, 2021, 9:13 PM EST) — The Council for Federal Cannabis Regulation has requested a meeting with the head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to address what the organization says is a public health crisis “unfolding with increasing severity” due to a federal reading of a rule that has “needlessly hamstrung” the regulation of cannabinoids. The CFCR sent a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra on Sunday stating that the two organizations must work together to overcome the restrictions of the so-called drug exclusion rule under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics…

Colorado voters could have the chance next year to vote on legalizing possession and personal cultivation of psychedelics, and creating a system of licensed businesses to produce psilocybin, DMT, ibogaine and mescaline for supervised use at “healing centers.” A national advocacy group recently filed two separate psychedelics reform initiatives for Colorado’s 2022 ballot, both of which are titled the Natural Medicine Healing Act. The first would legalize the possession, cultivation and an array of entheogenic substances, as well as establish a regulatory model for psychedelics therapy. The other is a similar, but somewhat more dialed-back proposal that would initially legalize…