School Employee Knelt on Cuffed Student’s Neck – The Daily Beast
A school in North Carolina has suspended its assistant principal after video showed a school staffer kneeling on the neck of a student as a police officer cuffed the student. Panther Creek High School leaders won’t say if the assistant principal, Jonathan Chang, is the one who knelt on the student, however. The staffer knelt on the student in an effort to stop a fight, according to a letter from the school’s principal, though the principal did not elucidate why the extra restraint was necessary when the student was already being handcuffed on the ground. The Cary Police Department is…
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Riverhead tries to pinpoint where recreational marijuana locations can open – News 12 Connecticut
Dec 09, 2021, 3:55amUpdated 12h ago By: News 12 Staff A Riverhead advisory group is struggling to find locations for recreational marijuana stores in their town. Pot dispensaries cannot be within 500 feet of a school or within 200 feet of a church so Riverhead town officials are working on figuring out locations where it can and cannot be sold. Riverhead Councilman Ken Rothwell says the town is getting ready to safely allow the sale of recreational marijuana, but the state’s Office of Cannabis Management still has not provided ground rules for the industry. He says that there will not…
Read More »Greif: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot – Thehour.com
Dec. 8, 2021Updated: Dec. 8, 2021 5:25 p.m. DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) _ Greif Inc. (GEF) on Wednesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $104.5 million. The Delaware, Ohio-based company said it had net income of $1.74 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were $1.93 per share. The industrial packaging company posted revenue of $1.58 billion in the period. For the year, the company reported profit of $390.7 million, or $6.54 per share. Revenue was reported as $5.56 billion. Greif expects full-year earnings in the range of $5.85 to $6.45 per share. _____ This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using…
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Connecticut to accept recreational marijuana business applications next month – Marijuana Business Daily
One of the latest recreational use marijuana markets in the U.S. is poised to get rolling as Connecticut regulators said they’ll start accepting business license applications as soon as January. According to Norwalk-based TV station News 12 Connecticut, the state’s Social Equity Council on Tuesday approved new industry rules and announced that a 90-day application window will commence on a yet-to-be-determined date in “late January.” Advertisement After the window closes, authorities will hold a lottery to determine license winners. Still, many details remain unclear, including just how many permits will ultimately be awarded. Key insights to inform decisions: MJBizFactbook Say hello…
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What’s The Deal With Delta-8 THC? – Cannabis & Hemp – United States – Mondaq News Alerts
United States: What’s The Deal With Delta-8 THC? 08 December 2021 Feuerstein Kulick To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Have you ever walked into your local bodega and wondered how they could sell stuff that looks and smells just like cannabis? That “stuff” is Delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), an isomer of Delta-9-THC (the compound that most people purchase when they buy cannabis products at a state-legal dispensary). Delta-8 and Delta-9 are very similar, with the only real chemical difference being where the double bond sits on the carbon chain (on the 8th carbon chain for…
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Anti-Marijuana Indiana Governor Backs Proposal To Set Up Legalization Rules If Federal Prohibition Ends – Marijuana Moment
A top Rhode Island lawmaker on Thursday said that a bill to legalize marijuana in the Ocean State is nearly finalized, with just one major provision left to resolve following months of negotiations—and that he expects the issue to be resolved early in the new year. House Speaker Joe Shekarchi (D) told WPRI-TV that while legislators are “still not there” on a final product, he’s “happy to report that we’ve worked down to almost one issue that’s left, but it’s not there yet.” That issue relates to who should regulate the cannabis market—a new independent commission or the state Department…
Read More »PINK SODA BLOW DRY BAR WILL OPEN ITS 5TH LOCATION ON NEWBURY STREET IN BOSTON, MA – EIN News
Award-winning Pink Soda is opening SOON providing new options for luxury blowout services and so much more in the Back Bay. Life is too short for a bad blowout.” — Wendy Brown BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES, December 8, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ — Pink Soda is excited to announce the opening of its newest location on Newbury Street, located in the Back Bay neighborhood, in the city of Boston, MA. This is the second location in Massachusetts. Pink Soda was recently named one of the top 10 salons in the country by Disturb Magazine. The new hybrid blow dry bar / salon…
Read More »Botoxed, Surgically Lifted Camels Banned From Beauty Contest – The Daily Beast
Saudi authorities have clamped down on a camel scandal, disqualifying more than 40 of the humped animals from the annual King Abdulaziz Camel Festival beauty contest after discovering they had been given Botox shots or had face and hump lifts. The month-long festival sees jurors tasked with awarding beauty prizes worth more than $66 million for the best shaped heads, necks, humps and posture, as well as judging their often elaborate costumes. But organizers say that each year camel owners go to even greater extremes to make their beasts beautiful by stretching their lips and noses, boosting their humps, and…
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