Year: 2023

Office of Cannabis Management testifies at first-ever State Senate Subcommittee hearing on cannabis

Chris Alexander, executive director of the New York State Office of Cannabis Management (OCM), on Oct. 31 testified in front…

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St. Mattias Charities dedicates annual Prayer Breakfast posthumously to Vaughan Toney

The Bronx-based St. Matthias Charities, Inc. on Saturday, Oct. 28 dedicated its annual fundraising Prayer Breakfast to Vaughan Toney, the…

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Shipping holiday barrels to Jamaica

The practice of packing and shipping barrels to Jamaica from migrants across the world to their loved ones has been…

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Gotham Buds, Harlem’s first legal adult-use cannabis retail store, officially opens

A year after New York City’s Office of Cannabis Management began accepting applications for Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensary licenses, Gotham…

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Critics decry some very strange Jamaican foreign policy moves

In recent months, the Jamaican government has made some foreign policy moves, which have left opposition parties, academics and social…

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Curry Lobster With Potato

I’m definitely not impressed by lobster in any form or fashion. I personally think is highly overrated and I’d much…

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The trauma you don’t even know you have

“The Invisible Ache” by Courtney B. Vance & Dr. Robin L. Smith with Charisse Jones c.2023, Balance $30.00 268 pages…

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