Shop At The Westbrook Outlets For Back To School Fun! – Patch.com
ESSEX, CHESTER, DEEP RIVER, CT — Shopping is a pleasurable past-time that many of us took for granted prior to Covid-19 and the pandemic. Since the world has reopened, shopping experiences have looked a bit different. However, it is still fun to get out with friends and family, ramble through stores filled with stylish clothing and footwear, as well as, home accessories and more, searching for what you need and want. The Westbrook Outlets have always been a great place to do just that, and now, post-pandemic shut down, the stores at the Outlet are open and ready for business….
Read More »Feds evaluate cannabis testing labs (Newsletter: August 9, 2021) – Marijuana Moment
CO gov talks marijuana with South Park creators; GOP congressman: psychedelic therapy “sounds amazing”; Record MI cannabis sales Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Free to read (but not free to produce)! We’re proud of our newsletter and the reporting we publish at Marijuana Moment, and we’re happy to provide it for free. But it takes a lot of work and resources to make this happen. If you value Marijuana Moment, invest in…
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GMA’s Robin Roberts shares rare selfie with partner Amber during unbelievable date night to mark major… – HELLO!
August 08, 2021 – 15:25 BST Hanna Fillingham Good Morning America star Robin Roberts took to Instagram to share a rare selfie with her partner Amber Laign during an unbelievable date night Robin Roberts has an incredibly strong relationship and while her partner Amber Laign is notoriously private, she occasionally features in posts on the star’s social media. MORE: Robin Roberts announces courageous career move in emotional post And most recently, the Good Morning America co-anchor took to Instagram to share some impressive photos from an extra special date night. The date night in question was to celebrate Robin…
Read More »The Ganjier: A New Class of Cannabis Professional
With the dawn of the legal cannabis world several years ago, many of us in the fledgling business realized that education was key to breaking the age-old stigmas around this healing plant. The public needed to learn that we were promoting Reefer Gladness, not Reefer Madness. To accomplish this, we asked ourselves how we could best spread the word about the benefits of cannabis. Green Flower Media in Southern California, under the guidance of CEO and Co-Founder Max Simon, landed on a great solution: They created a strong online presence with a website that featured classes available to everyone, taught…
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‘I just want to grow my weed’: Danbury hemp farmers say equity is key in city’s marijuana discussions – Danbury News Times
DANBURY – The short version of how two labor union activists from Harlem and Queens wound up growing hemp in the semi-rural hills of western Danbury is that they were fed up with New York City. But the longer story is a certain amount of destiny played a role in the couple’s year-old farming venture, as well as their decision to speak up for people of color as city leaders debate the future of legal marijuana in Danbury. “I just want to grow my weed,” says Hector Gerardo with a laugh that belies how seriously he believes in giving people…
Read More »Microdosing Is the Future of Cannabis
As North America has settled comfortably into its recreational era, I’m thinking about the future of cannabis consumption. While aficionados of the plant rightfully have many concerns about the pharmaceutical industry’s evolving relationship with marijuana, I’d argue that the future of cannabis is based on certain pharmacological principles — those of consistency, predictability and repeatability. And a large part of that equation leads us to the importance, and even necessity, of microdosing cannabis. We already know that the future of cannabis revolves around the consumers who have yet to walk into a marijuana shop. The existing ganja markets have progressed…
Read More »Marijuana Law Sparks Questions About Process and Corporate Interests – CT Examiner
Connecticut’s new recreational marijuana law established a social equity council tasked with ironing out the implementation of equity components of the legislation. The council held its inaugural meeting Thursday morning, where they passed a list of geographical areas deemed to be disproportionately affected by the war on drugs — and debated the speed of the process and fears that equity would be quickly co-opted by corporate interests. The state plans to prioritize applicants for marijuana licenses who hail from those communities. Gov. Ned Lamont’s associate policy director, Patrick Hulin, presented a list of disproportionately impacted areas compiled by the governor’s…
Read More »Meet Yale Internal Medicine: Fotios Koumpouras, MD, FACR, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology) – Yale School of Medicine
As part of our “Meet Yale Internal Medicine” series, today’s featured physician is Fotios Koumpouras, MD, FACR, assistant professor of medicine (rheumatology). For Fotios Koumpouras, MD, FACR, lupus treatment hinges on solving systemic issues of healthcare access, disease destigmatization and a lack of patient-led care. “When you say lupus, there’s a stigma,” said Koumpouras, assistant professor of medicine (rheumatology); and director, Yale Lupus Program. “Physicians used the word lupus to describe a variety of rashes of the face in the 13th century. And one of the rashes was leprosy. So if you had a red rash, people thought you were…
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