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A 20-acre cannabis farm near Upper Lake went up for sale last week for $599,000, according to a recent Zillow listing. The property has a 10-year occupancy permit and 43,560 square feet of permitted cultivation, for a total of 78,550 square feet of approved growing area, according to the listing. The infrastructure described in the publication includes a well, a security gate, water storage tanks, parking and a 30 x 75 meter barn.
The photos show growing houses and outdoor plants. Lux Places real estate agent Forest Nikola Elie promoted the listing on social media.
“Grow Big. Live Close. Win Fast!”, he wrote in a post on a local Facebook group. “Whether you are expanding your operation or looking for an income producing private home, this property is move in ready.”
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Connecticut lawmakers are among the latest to pass US legislation to allow certain qualified patients to use medical marijuana in health care facilities such as hospitals, nursing homes and hospices.
Members of the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Public Health gathered to discuss the cannabis bill at a hearing Monday, taking testimony from state agencies, medical organizations and others as they consider implementing a policy known as “Ryan’s Law,” named after a California medical cannabis patient who died.
Under the proposal, terminally ill patients would be able to access cannabis products that cannot be smoked or vaporized in health care facilities, such as hospitals. That would not extend to patients receiving emergency care, however.
The bill, HB 5242, also specifies that healthcare facilities can suspend their medical cannabis allowance if a federal agency such as the Department of Justice or the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) initiates an enforcement action or issues guidance prohibiting access to medical marijuana on their premises.
Erin Gorman Kirk, Connecticut’s Cannabis Ombudsman, told the joint committee that the current policy means that “a registered patient with a terminal prognosis may be forced to discontinue a legally permitted regimen the moment they enter a hospital or nursing home.”
“Patients who cannot or cannot tolerate opioids, or who have found the only effective relief for pain, nausea or anxiety in medical cannabis, are left with no choice because of where they receive their care,” he said. “HB 5242 addresses this by requiring covered facilities to permit the use of smokable forms of cannabis, including tinctures, edibles, and topicals, for those with a terminal prognosis of one year or less.”
“HB 5242 is important, impactful, and morally necessary. It’s a common-sense, ethical bill that protects vulnerable patients who don’t want opioids, can’t tolerate them, or have simply found relief and clarity in cannabis to allow them to die with dignity. Medical cannabis is backed by clinical evidence, supported by nurses and policy analysts who work with patients who are entitled to work today. Connecticut across the country would not be should be a statue that tells a dying patient: your medicine is legal, your doctor approved it, but you can’t have it here.
The Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA), meanwhile, opposed the proposal, telling lawmakers invoice “He misunderstands many aspects of the laws and regulations governing hospitals.”
“HB 5242 requires Connecticut hospitals to break the law, a law that the (Department of Public Health or DPH) itself (the Centers for Medicaid and Medicaid Services or CMS) would have to enforce as part of its oversight system and that the Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) would have to enforce as part of its role in overseeing controlled substance laws,” he said.
The Connecticut Association of Healthcare Facilities and the Connecticut Center for Assisted Living (CAHCF/CCAL) also submitted testimony against the reform, saying that “compliance would put providers in an extremely difficult and untenable position trying to navigate conflicting federal and state laws.”
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Legislators in several states are moving forward similar bills to give patients access to medical marijuana in healthcare facilitiesUS lawmakers say the policy change this week is necessary to ensure patients have access to a full range of treatment options.
Last week alone, Ryan’s bills saw action in at least four states: Colorado, Hawaii, Virginia and Washington state.
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Arizona senators have passed a couple of measures make the act of creating an “excessive” amount of marijuana smoke or odor a criminal nuisance punishable by jail time.even if the person is using cannabis in their own home in compliance with state law.
Despite concerns about weakening the will of voters who voted to approve legalization and concerns about enforceability and ambiguity about what constitutes “excessive” marijuana smoke, members of the Senate Judiciary and Elections Committee on Friday approved the bill and a joint resolution to put the issue on the table by votes of 5-2 and 4-3, respectively.
The legislation by Sen. JD Mesnard (R) was amended during the hearing to provide a clearer definition of “excessive” smoking and remove the reference to making the offense a “felony.” However, some members still argued that the measures lack clarity and will continue to threaten criminalization, making the offense a Class 3 felony, punishable by up to 30 days in jail, a maximum fine of $500 and a year of probation.
The revised definition of excessive cannabis smoke or odor describes “what a person is able to detect on another person’s private property.”
The law states that excessive production of marijuana smoke or odor is “injurious to health, unreasonable, offensive to the senses, and interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property and is a public nuisance.”
Mesnard said he decided to push the issue “based on personal experience” with his neighbors, “as well as hearing from other people that people can do what they want on their private property, but on other people’s private property, their homes no less, that’s when it starts to become another problem.”
“I can say that it was regrettable for me that I didn’t have to have conversations with my four-year-old, maybe because of what’s going on in some houses down in my neighborhood, there was such a strong smell and smoke coming from the road,” he said. “If it’s important to you to play, there are a lot of ways to do it without affecting the neighbors around you, so it’s easy.”
Several citizens testified against the proposals, arguing that the state’s legalization law would unfairly restrict adults’ right to use cannabis and make it difficult to challenge in court allegations of excessive smoke or odor, for example.
The ACLU of Arizona also expressed opposition to the measure, saying a representative said it would “undermine the intent of the voters” and that the issue of smoking and public odor has already been addressed by the courts, stating that “the mere smell of marijuana no longer automatically establishes criminal activity.”
“SCR 1048 and the mirror bill (SB 1725) Relying on subjective assessments like excessive marijuana smell opens up enforcement to the kind of discretionary judgments that research on bias shows leads to disparities and outcomes,” they said. “This leads to equal protection violations and arbitrary enforcement.”
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On the back of this law, anti-cannabis activists are working to place an initiative on the state’s November ballot. significantly rolling back the voter-approved marijuana legalization law.
A GOP congressman recently said he would like his state to take such a measure, but he also admitted that. President Donald Trump’s recent federal scheduling order could complicate that prohibitionist push.
Under the proposal, possession would be legal if voters chose to enact the initiative — and Arizona’s medical marijuana program would remain in place — but it would shut down the commercial recreational cannabis market that has evolved since voters approved a measure to legalize adult use in 2020.
According to a section of the latest initiative’s findings, “the proliferation of marijuana establishments and recreational marijuana sales in this state has created unintended consequences and negative consequences for the public health, safety, and welfare of Arizonans, including increased marijuana use among children, environmental concerns, increased demand on water resources, public nuisance, illegal market activity, and market instability.”
“Sales of legal marijuana in Arizona have declined for two years in a row, resulting in less tax revenue for the state, and some patients relying on recreational marijuana use instead of taking advantage of the benefits of the state’s medical marijuana program,” he says.
The initiative would instruct the legislature to make appropriate changes, also by amending the existing statute as it pertains to the commercial industry, including tax and advertising regulations.
To vote, the campaign must collect 255,949 valid signatures by July 2nd. If the proposal goes to the voters and is approved, it would take effect in January 2028.
It remains to be seen whether there will be any desire for repeal among voters, as 60% of voters approved legalization on the ballot in 2020.
Even more last year’s poll found majority support for medical cannabis legalization (86 percent), adult-use legalization (69 percent), and banking reform (78 percent).
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