Oklahoma Voters Reject Whole Legalization Of Cannabis
The New York Situations claims the point out has “quietly been through a road-stage transformation” when it arrives to approving professional medical cannabis, but on Tuesday, voters turned down the option to entirely legalize the drug. Also: stiffer drug penalties viewed as in North Carolina, paid out medical go away in Colorado, and extra.
The New York Occasions:
With a Cannabis Shop on ‘Every Corner,’ Oklahoma Rejects Full Legalization
In the earlier couple several years, Oklahoma, very long a good bastion of conservatism, has quietly gone through a street-level transformation when it will come to cannabis. Dispensaries dot the landscape, with more than 400 in Oklahoma City alone. And that is just for clinical cannabis. On Tuesday, voters throughout Oklahoma opted versus likely further, according to The Connected Press, rejecting a ballot initiative that would have legalized recreational cannabis use by grownups 21 and around. With the vote, Oklahoma joined a variety of conservative states whose voters have not too long ago determined versus recreational cannabis legalization. (Goodman, 3/7)
Politico:
‘Tokelahoma’ At The Crossroads
Johnny Teehee was sworn in as law enforcement chief of Muskogee in the summer season of 2018, hardly three months soon after the condition passed a referendum legalizing professional medical cannabis. Almost five years afterwards, as he patrols the town, he is overcome by the transformation weed has wrought on this struggling jap Oklahoma town. A block absent from the 1st Baptist Church of Muskogee, where Teehee is a parishioner, is a cannabis improve procedure occupying what utilised to be the central submit business. A plot of land Teehee acquired with the intention of one particular working day setting up a house on it now sits next to a 10-acre weed farm. Dispensaries are all over the place — The Treehouse, Large Pappa’s, Blaze-n-Bake, Pure Grass, Johnny D’s. At 420 Main St. in downtown Muskogee is a weed store emblazoned with a big mural featuring the likenesses of Merle Haggard and Bob Marley. “We do smoke marijuana in Muskogee,” it proclaims, cheekily refuting the opening line of Haggard’s 1969 redneck anthem “Okie from Muskogee.” (Demko, 3/7)
In other health and fitness news from across the U.S. —
AP:
NC Senate Considers Stiffer Penalties For Drug Distribution
As fentanyl overdoses proceed to plague communities throughout North Carolina, the condition Senate is thinking of laws to increase punishments for drug sellers whose distribution of the synthetic opioid outcomes in an overdose demise. A bill that superior Tuesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee would revise state guidelines to develop higher-quality felony offenses for deaths induced by distributing certain managed substances and undertaking so with malice. It would also maximize great amounts for trafficking heroin, fentanyl and carfentanil, environment a sliding scaled primarily based on drug quantity. (Schoenbaum, 3/7)
The Colorado Sun:
80% Of Local Governments Opted Out Of Colorado’s Compensated Family Depart
So far, far more than 1,250 local governments have opted out of the contentious Colorado plan necessitating companies to give paid relatives and clinical depart. That amount stands to improve as the new March 31 deadline to opt out strategies. (Chuang, 3/7)
Des Moines Register:
Iowa Lawmakers Approve Gender-Affirming Treatment Ban For Transgender Youth
Transgender young children in Iowa would no more time be ready to obtain gender-affirming healthcare below a monthly bill handed Tuesday by the Iowa Senate. Senate File 538 would prohibit Iowa health professionals from delivering puberty blockers, hormone treatment or gender-affirming surgical procedures to a transgender human being young than 18. (Akin, 3/7)
Des Moines Sign up:
Iowa Senate Votes To Restrict University Toilet Use For Trans Students
Transgender students would not be authorized to use bogs in elementary and secondary educational institutions that align with their gender id underneath a invoice passed Tuesday by the Iowa Senate. Senate File 482 prohibits persons from coming into a college restroom or shifting space that does not align with their sexual intercourse at delivery. College students would need to have parental consent to request a unique lodging, these types of as employing a faculty or single-occupancy restroom. (Akin, 3/7)
Anchorage Day by day News:
Dunleavy Training Costs Would Prohibit Sex Ed, Supply Instructor Bonuses
While schooling advocates proceed to simply call for increased funding to go immediately to Alaska general public college districts, Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Tuesday introduced training coverage proposals that would limit sexual schooling and the rights of gender non-conforming college students in public educational institutions. “There should really hardly ever be a situation wherever a father or mother sends their kid to university, and the youngster arrives back again possessing discussions about issues they learned in school that could be a delicate challenge or an affront to a parent’s values,” Dunleavy, a Republican, said while surrounded by a gaggle of conservative training advocates and youngsters on Tuesday. (Samuels and Maguire, 3/7)
Chicago Tribune and ProPublica:
The Federal Govt Is Investigating An Illinois College That Frequently Experienced Learners With Disabilities Arrested
The U.S. Office of Education has opened a civil legal rights investigation into a tiny Illinois college district for students with disabilities to figure out no matter whether youngsters enrolled there have been denied an appropriate instruction mainly because of the “practice of referring college students to legislation enforcement for misbehaviors.” (Richards and Cohen, 3/8)
The Hill:
EPA Watchdog Knocks Trump Officers More than Weakened Evaluation For Toxic Chemical
The Environmental Safety Agency’s interior watchdog on Tuesday knocked a Trump-period go in which political officials weakened an assessment on the potential risks of a toxic chemical. The Business office of the EPA’s Inspector Basic issued a new report that said political appointees utilized a last-minute disagreement to acquire the “unprecedented” stage of listing a array of values for the toxicity of a chemical recognized as PFBS rather of a definitive toxicity stage. (Frazin, 3/7)
KHN:
California Presents Bipartisan Road Map For Guarding Children On line Even As Massive Tech Fights Back
In California, a Democrat and a Republican figured out how to go the country’s toughest on the internet privacy law preserving young ones. If their experience is any indicator, nevertheless, federal legislators can count on intense pushback from Major Tech if they heed President Joe Biden’s contact for similar action on a nationwide scale. The law, modeled after laws in the United Kingdom, will ban websites from profiling users in California below age 18, monitoring their places, or nudging them to provide own info. It will also require on line companies to instantly set privateness settings at their maximum stages on internet sites that children obtain when the legislation goes into impact future year. (Kreidler, 3/8)
