The Cheyenne City Council voted down a proposal Monday to decriminalize marijuana in city limits. Councilman Richard Johnson said his primary motivation was to save the city money on superfluous fines and attorney fees.
Saying there have been at least two overdoses at the school and 39 drug offenses, Riverton High School Principal John Griffith is urging city leaders to ban THC products in city limits.
The Cheyenne City Council considered marijuana decriminalization Wednesday night, but despite a strong public turnout in support of the measure, the council voted 5-2 against it.
The Cheyenne City Council is expected to consider a proposal to decriminalize marijuana within city limits at a meeting next week.
In a rare union, Wyoming House Democrats and the Freedom Caucus teamed up to kill a bill that would have allowed charging drug dealers whose customers die from overdose with manslaughter.
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The Wyoming House of Representatives is considering a bill imposing a homicide charge on drug dealers whose customers die of fentanyl, heroin or methamphetamine overdose.
During an undercover investigation following the death of Cody man, DCI agents posed as a potential drug buyer and watched as the suspected dealer from Greybull arranged to deliver fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone.
Accused of involuntarily killing his toddler son by having illicit medications accessible in his home, Daniel Scott James, 27, of Rock Springs could face up to 20 years in prison.
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Cheyenne’s Tanner Wirfel was just 31 when he died from a fentanyl-related overdose in October. His death is representative of the rising threat posed by the synthetic opioid, which state and federal officials say is rapidly increasing its presence in Wyoming.
Two Newcastle teenagers were flown down to Denver Children’s Hospital after overdosing on marijuana-infused gummi bears.
