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North York Borough next month could join the ranks of Pennsylvania municipalities that have decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana. To date York, Harrisburg, and Lancaster are among jurisdictions that have done so.Joel Bissell | Jbissell@mlive.com
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VASSAR, MI — Inspectors found a black garbage bag containing nearly 20 pounds of untagged, untracked marijuana in the attic of a marijuana shop in Saginaw County’s Vassar.
That’s one of the seven violations Michigan marijuana regulators cited in a Jan. 25 statement announcing Premier Provisioning, operated by 664 Vassar LLC, must pay a $212,000 fine and close its doors for 30 days, beginning Feb. 3.
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Over the last several days, we’ve looked at some interesting people from Alabama’s history. Today, we’re looking at an interesting event and one that – at least in part – will be recreated this weekend.
The city of Madison in Madison County is celebrating what it calls “Christmas Capers” Saturday at 4 p.m. The quaint downtown area of this booming city will be transformed into what organizers call a “winter wonderland” during this time that will include the throwing of rubber chickens off a roof. Why you ask?
According to organizers, during the Great Depression, a Madison man by the name of Doc Hughes started a tradition of throwing live chickens off his drug store roof. The birds, which would sometimes take flight and prompt a chase, were marked with a tag that was redeemable for a prize within the store. Seems awfully close to a famous WKRP in Cincinnati episode to me.
The chickens didn’t only come with a prize – they were the prize. It was the Depression after all, and a chicken meant dinner for many. The event stopped at Holladay’s death in the 1970s but was revived in 2019 for the city’s 150th anniversary.
And, since the Madison Station Historic Preservation Society can’t throw live chickens, they’ve opted for the next best thing with Holladay’s grandson tossing rubber chickens off the top of his old drug store. Catch and chicken and win a prize. As far as I know, it’s the only chicken-throwing Christmas event in Alabama.
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Companies that have been awarded licenses by the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission plan to dispense products in 37 locations in 21 cities across the state, according to the license applications.
Joey Robertson, president and CEO of Wagon Trail Med-Serv LLC, one of the integrated companies that was awarded a license on Tuesday, said his expectation is that products could be available by late spring or early summer of 2024.
The law passed by the Legislature in 2021 authorizing medical marijuana placed caps on how many licenses could be issued and how many dispensary sites licensees could have.
The law allowed up to four dispensary licensees and three sites for each. The law allowed up to five licenses for integrated companies that can have up to five dispensaries each. That adds up to a maximum of 37 allowed.
Here is where dispensaries are planned, according to the license applications.
Dispensaries can only operate in cities and counties that have approved ordinances or resolutions allowing them.
The 13-member AMCC awarded licenses to integrated companies Tuesday. Integrated companies are authorized to cultivate, process, transport, and dispense medical cannabis. The commission distinguishes between awarding a license and issuing a license. The…
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It’s a 10-hour, two-meal round-trip drive to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to buy marijuana for some folks.
But the pot pilgrims don’t mind. It’s a pretty drive.
Surrounded by vast fields of grass and fall-colored trees offsetting green pines on a recent October day, two middle-aged Minnesotans wearing jeans walked out of Glazed and Confused, one of the only businesses in Mastodon, a 700-person U.P. town along the Wisconsin border.
An occasional semi blows by on U.S. 2. One of the two men is carrying a box. Inside are sealed bags of commercial cannabis flower and THC vaping cartridges worth hundreds of dollars.
The family owned “Glazed and Confused” recreational marijuana store in Mastodon Township sits along U.S. 2 less than a mile from the Wisconsin border, where marijuana is illegal. Where the road curves at the top of the image is where Wisconsin begins. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com)
“It’s closer than Colorado,” said one of the gravelly-voiced men. The two don’t want to share their names. The plant’s historically bad reputation lingers despite it being legal in Michigan since 2018 and since August in their home state of Minnesota, where shops aren’t expected to open until 2025.
The men represent the target market for Michigan marijuana stores sprouting up along the fringes of the western U.P. — out-of-staters.
Weed has become a big business along the border. There’s a battle for market share and large quantities of commercial marijuana entering neighboring…
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — When it comes to enforcing drunken driving laws, police have a battery of tools at their disposal. Field sobriety tests, along with breath, blood, and urine tests for blood alcohol concentrations are well established indicators of a driver’s degree of intoxication.
However, in the case of marijuana, the drug’s unique metabolism makes the question of intoxication – on the road or in the workplace – more complicated.
That’s because tests for drug levels in the blood only tell us whether someone used marijuana in the last several days or even weeks, not whether they are under the influence at the time.
Earlier marijuana use still causes positive blood tests because the psychoactive component of cannabis – tetrahydrocannabinol or THC – sticks around the body in fat cells and is released back into circulation long after the intoxicating effects on the brain have gone away.
The limitations of drug testing have come up as Ohioans vote on a Nov. 7 ballot proposal – Issue 2 – that would legalize recreational marijuana use in Ohio.
Here’s what we know.
Tests for cannabis don’t actually measure THC, the component of cannabis responsible for the feeling of being “high.” Shortly after THC reaches the bloodstream it is rapidly taken up in the fat cells of the brain and body, and little remains in circulation to measure.
Instead, as a proxy for THC, a urine test for cannabis measures a product of its…
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