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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…

With adult-use recreational cannabis officially legalized in the state earlier this year, Connecticut Legal Services and law firm Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP are collaborating to help people erase past cannabis-related offenses from their records. Carmody and Connecticut Legal Services, which operates as the state’s largest legal aid agency, recently announced the launch of an initiative that will help low-income individuals navigate the process of filing petitions to expunge certain marijuana convictions. S.B. 1201, signed by Gov. Ned Lamont in June, automatically erased qualifying convictions issued between 2000 and Oct. 1, 2015, but people with convictions before or after…