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The University of Connecticut Law School Alumni Association will honor seven graduates at a virtual awards ceremony and annual meeting at 6 p.m. on Oct. 26, 2021. The event is open to all UConn Law alumni. The annual awards recognize the contributions of UConn Law graduates to the law school, the legal profession and the community. Michael J. Callahan JD ’95 will receive the Distinguished Graduate Award. He is the executive director of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance and professor of the practice of law at Stanford Law School. Before entering academia, he was senior…

Florida-based cannabis company Trulieve, which owns and operates a medical dispensary Bristol, acquired Phoenix-based Harvest Health & Recreation Inc., creating one of the largest legal cannabis companies in the U.S. As part of the deal, Truelieve will acquire all shares of Harvest, according to a Friday announcement the company made after the deal closed. Harvest will be delisted from the Canadian Securities Exchange Oct. 4. “The combined footprint provides Trulieve with a solid foundation for continued growth and scale,” Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers said. “We look forward to fully integrating Harvest as we continue to execute on our hub strategy…

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HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) – New laws went into effect on Friday, Oct. 1. Pedestrian crossing A new pedestrian law expands the circumstances where drivers must yield the right-of-way to people at marked and unmarked crosswalks that are not controlled by traffic signals or police officers. Previously, the law said a driver must yield to a pedestrian, slowing or stopping as necessary, if the pedestrian has stepped off the curb or into a crosswalk. Under the new law: …a driver must “slow or stop as necessary if the pedestrian (1) is within any portion of the crosswalk; (2) steps to the…

Patients who are registered with the state’s medical cannabis access program may now legally grow cannabis for their own personal use. Under the new law, which took effect today, qualified patients ages 18 and older are permitted to grow up to six cannabis plants in their homes. Households with more than one qualified patient may home cultivate a maximum of 12 plants. Over 54,000 residents are currently registered with state regulators to possess and access medical cannabis. Previously, patients were prohibited from growing their own cannabis and were required to obtain marijuana from one of the state’s limited number of licensed…

A variety of new laws take effect Oct. 1, 2021 in Connecticut. By Hugh McQuaid,CTNewsJunkie.com New laws taking effect in Connecticut Friday will give pedestrians safer options in crosswalks, medical marijuana patients the right to grow cannabis plants in their homes, and alcohol consumers a new fee on nips. Those are a few of the changes Oct. 1 will bring as a handful of bills or provisions of new laws go into effect on Friday. Among the new statutes are elements of sweeping legislation designed to protect pedestrians and cyclists on Connecticut roads. Crosswalks One element of that bill taking…