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Changing the culture around cannabis in Connecticut

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Post date May 12, 2023
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A surgical complication in 2010 almost led Duncan Markovich, the owner and co-founder of the CBD store Better Ways in Brandford, CT, to lose his left leg. He began using cannabis therapeutically to relieve pain and treat nerve damage. After the 2018 Farm Bill descheduled some cannabis products from the Controlled Substance Act, Markovich and…

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Hamden area Asian Americans reveal long-standing racism

Post author By Chatwan Mongkol
Post date November 30, 2021
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New Haven residents and Yale students came out to show solidarity for Asian, Black and Transgender residents, rallying from New Haven Green to Yale’s Quad in front of the university’s library on Oct. 16, 2021. (Photo by Chatwan Mongkol)

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