The Columbus Dispatch

Vermont removes possibly contaminat­ed pot from stores Florida doctors’ board tightens ban on gender-affirming care

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Vermont regulators have removed marijuana potentiall­y contaminat­ed with a pesticide from five retail stores after a consumer reported feeling sick after smoking some.

Vermont’s Cannabis Control Board issued a consumer protection warning last week for all strains of marijuana produced by grower Holland Cannabis Co. due to pesticide contaminat­ion. Customers who purchased marijuana grown by Holland Cannabis at the five particular stores are asked to return it to the retailers.

The stores are Zenbarn, in Waterbury; The High Country Cannabis, in Derby; The Green Man, in St. Johnsbury; Lamoille County Cannabis, in Morrisvill­e, and Capital Cannabis Company, in Montpelier.

Brice Simon, a lawyer representi­ng Holland Cannabis, said his client is fully cooperatin­g with the board and wants to find the source of the contaminat­ion.

ORLANDO, Fla. – A prohibitio­n against puberty blocking hormones and gender-affirming surgeries for minors in Florida was tightened further after a board overseeing doctors eliminated an exception for clinical trials Friday at the request of Florida Gov. Ron Desantis’ administra­tion.

Some members of the public attending the meeting in Tallahasse­e shouted expletives, and law enforcemen­t officers positioned themselves in the front of the room after the vote by the Florida Board of Osteopathi­c Medicine.

The decision came after one member of the public after another testified at the packed meeting of the osteopathi­c medicine board and the Florida Board of Medicine that gender-affirming treatment had been ”magical” and like “opening a prison door” for them or their children.

One transgende­r adult man during his testimony gave himself an injection of hormones in front of the doctors’ boards. Others said treatment had stopped them from “fighting with themselves” and contemplat­ing suicide.

 ?? PRESS SER/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTI­AL ?? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lays flowers at the Turkish Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday. Last week, Zelenskyy embarked on a multiday European summit, with stops in London, Paris and Brussels.
PRESS SER/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTI­AL Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lays flowers at the Turkish Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday. Last week, Zelenskyy embarked on a multiday European summit, with stops in London, Paris and Brussels.

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