Shake Up at MPP: Hawkins Out, Hutchinson In – CelebStoner
.page-container .pagenation ul li {list-style:none;} .page-container .pagenation ul {display:block; clear:both; float:left;} Toi Hutchinson (left), Steve Hawkins (right) Marijuana Policy Project has a new president and CEO, Toi Hutchinson. She replaces Steve Hawkins, who was executive director since 2018. Hutchinson is the first Black woman to head the organization. In a press release issued by MPP, Hawkins stated: “I’m proud of what we have accomplished at MPP and look forward to working alongside Toi in the fight to end cannabis prohibition.” Hawkins has had a dual role as United States Cannabis Council (USCC) president and CEO. He now will exclusively lead USCC….
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Tell Us What You Think – Take the NORML Survey – Norml
This has been a year for the history books. Together, we will make 2022 even better. In 2021, five additional states — Connecticut, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia — legalized cannabis for adults. That means that an additional 42 million Americans were liberated from the oppressive and failed policy of marijuana prohibition. State lawmakers also took steps to ensure justice for individuals with prior marijuana convictions. Officials in California, Illinois, New York, Virginia, and elsewhere moved to either seal or expunge the convictions of some 2.2 million Americans who formerly faced the lifelong stigma of a marijuana-related…
Read More »Why Small Businesses Matter in Westport: New England Hemp Farm – HamletHub
Why Small Businesses Matter Shop small, do big things for your community Why Small Businesses Matter puts a spotlight on the local merchants who donate their time, talent, goods, and services for the betterment of our community. The shop local movement spreads virally as local businesses who are “tagged” have the opportunity to share their story! You’re IT New England Hemp Farm! Four questions with Brian Edmonds, CEO & Co-Founder of New England Hemp Farm. Why did you start your business? After retiring from Wall Street after 30 years I was looking for a new opportunity. I saw plenty of…
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Most murders in New Haven are unsolved but who cares? – Journal Inquirer
Last week New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker got a slap in the face from the city council, the Board of Alders, which rejected his nomination of Acting Police Chief Rene Dominguez to become permanent chief, despite her creditable 20 years with the city’s police department. The board’s complaints against Dominguez were that she hadn’t produced a plan for improving the department, the department’s upper ranks have lost members of racial minorities, the department is out of touch with the community and needs to look more like it, and the department has failed to solve most of the city’s recent murders….
Read More »Nevada Mother Charged in CNN Producer’s Alleged ‘Sex Training’ of Underage Girls – The Daily Beast
A Nevada mother has been criminally charged after prosecutors say she traveled across the country last year with her 9-year-old daughter to take part in sex “training” allegedly offered by a CNN producer. Police in Henderson say the 48-year-old woman was arrested in August 2020. She was charged with two counts of child abuse, two counts of sexual assault against a child, and lewdness with a minor under 14, court records show. The Daily Beast is not naming the woman to avoid revealing the identity of her underage daughter. Police say she was taken into custody just a few days…
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10 new laws taking effect in Connecticut in 2022 – CT Insider
A class-action lawsuit alleged that prisoners had to drink and bath in dirty, smelly water at a Connecticut prison years before two prisoners contracted Legionnaires’ disease. David Madison / Getty Images Signed in the 2021 legislative session, the biggest component of the act allows for the erasure of some criminal records starting in 2023. According to the law, people who have been charged with low-level felonies can petition for a court to clear their public records after seven years if the offense occurred on or after Jan. 1, 2000. The law does not apply to Class A, B or C felonies…
Read More »New York City: The New Cannabis Industry HQ
It was pleasure and not business that drew Berner, the cofounder and public image of Cookies, arguably the most visible consumer brand in American cannabis, to touch down in New York City for a ten-day vacation in late August. Cannabis has been legal in the nation’s largest city since March. New York’s allowance for outdoor and public cannabis consumption wherever tobacco smoking is allowed — a right still not afforded in California, Colorado, and everywhere else the legal marijuana industry is firmly established — means that the former worldwide capital of marijuana arrests, where stop-and-frisk sent thousands of young men…
Read More »The Top Ten Largest Cannabis Companies For 2021 – Green Market Report
These are the ten largest cannabis companies based on revenue for the last nine months of 2021. It doesn’t include proforma numbers or planned acquisitions as no ever planned deal is a closed deal. The Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE SMG) is in the lead based on its revenues for the hydroponic business in the subsidiary Hawthorne. In the fourth quarter alone, Scott’s reported that its hydroponic business Hawthorne recorded sales of $329.1 million. Granted this was a drop of 2% due to declines in the European and Canadian businesses, plus the company noted that due to a shift in the fiscal…
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