How CT plans to protect medical marijuana program as recreational use begins – CT Insider
As Connecticut prepares to license recreational cannabis dispensaries, the state is implementing measures to ensure there’s sufficient supply for patients, including requiring existing facilities to preserve their medicinal marijuana services. Medical dispensaries that want to branch out to recreational, or “adult-use,” marijuana sales will have to submit a “medical preservation plan” to the state Department of Consumer Protection, Commissioner Michelle Seagull told the Medical Marijuana Program Board of Physicians during a Friday meeting. Recreational users will also be subject to a tax that medical users aren’t, Seagull said. Retail sales will be subject to Connecticut’s 6.35 percent sales tax, a…
Read More »What’s Happening in New York Now That Cannabis is Legal?
“Free samples! Edibles! Check it out,” the young entrepreneur who goes by the moniker “AI” yells in between tokes on a joint slathered with budder. Then, she adds, under her breath, “I’m high as f*ck!” This is a Friday night in Washington Square Park, a key youth gathering point in New York City’s Greenwich Village, and business is brisk. ‘Open Market’ in Washington Square AI says her initials stand for An Inspiration, and her business, registered in New York state last year, is Canaremedy — offering its own line of infused edibles, topicals and oils. At the table she has set up, she…
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Coming Saturday: A look at where towns stand regarding the selling of marijuana – Journal Inquirer
Reporter Joe Chaisson takes a look at the towns in north-central Connecticut, and whether they are for, against or thinking about whether they will allow places to sell marijuana.
Read More »Cannabis Client Alert – Week of October 11, 2021 | Dentons – JDSupra – JD Supra
In this week’s edition: FDA reverses marketing denial order for 490 Turning Point Brands products California legalizes retail sales of non-intoxicating cannabinoids, including CBD, as dietary supplements and ingredients in food and beverages NBA players will not be subject to random tests for cannabis this season Promising study from Australia shows that acidic cannabinoids may be effective in treating epilepsy And more… Federal FDA reverses MDO against Turning Point Brands products — The FDA has reversed its marketing denial order (MDO) against 490 Turning Point Brands (TPB) products. TPB included sufficient data in the premarket tobacco applications (PMTAs) regarding potential…
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Becoming Jasmine Mans: poet and founder of Buy Weed from Women
Becoming Jasmine Mans: poet and founder of Buy Weed from Women – Leafly Leafly Leafly ® Loading… Where are you from? noyes Remember me for 30 days. I confirm that this is not a shared device. Darn! You’re not old enough to use Leafly. Redirecting you to By accessing this site, you accept the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Jasmine Mans reflects on the journey that led her to find her purpose through art and a serendipitous door to the cannabis industry. Jasmine Mans has no need for a Zoom background. She sits in front of her computer near…
Read More »Barn Raising – Highlands Current
New center connects food, art and agriculture One thing that Tara Dalbow learned while completing her MFA in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College is that the perfect ending is one that’s both surprising and inevitable. That description applies to her latest project, which isn’t a poem. Dalbow is the curator of The Barns Center, a newly opened arts center that focuses on food, farming, ecology and sustainability. Considering the Hudson Valley’s impressive cultural heritage, not to mention its rich agricultural history and role as one of the founding sites of the modern environmental movement, it seems inevitable that a place…
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Today’s Business: High times in the office – not so fast – Middletown Press
Recreational use of cannabis may now be legal for adults but that doesn’t mean you can get high at work. While the state law prohibits employers from termination or otherwise taking adverse action against employees for their recreational marijuana use, the law does carve out a number of protections for employers to ensure the safety of their workplaces. Legalization in Connecticut was effective July 1. Now, months into the law, many employers are still confused and concerned about the prospect of employees entering the workplace high. First, it is important to note that the law does not require an employer…
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Today’s Business: High times in the office — not so fast – New Haven Register
Recreational use of cannabis may now be legal for adults but that doesn’t mean you can get high at work. While the state law prohibits employers from termination or otherwise taking adverse action against employees for their recreational marijuana use, the law does carve out a number of protections for employers to ensure the safety of their workplaces. Legalization in Connecticut was effective July 1. Now, months into the law, many employers are still confused and concerned about the prospect of employees entering the workplace high. First, it is important to note that the law does not require an employer…
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