FALL RIVER Jay says he buys high-quality pot in Fall River not to get a buzz but to help him fall asleep.
“I have horrible insomnia, and it helps me a lot,” said the 38-year-old Warwick resident, who didn’t want to reveal his last name.
Jay says he’s not eligible for a medical cannabis card in Rhode Island which is why he spends up to $200 every two months at the Northeast Alternatives dispensary on William S. Canning Boulevard off of Route 24 near the Tiverton line.
“I have no choice but to come here,” Jay said on a recent weekday afternoon, as he held a small customer bag containing both smokable weed and cannabis wax, which is a concentrated form of cannabis oil.
FALL RIVER Testimony is finally over in the long-awaited trial of former Mayor Jasiel Correia II, and while the jury still has yet to weigh the evidence, there were more situations revealed last week that have us scratching our heads again.
What about all the people who loved Jasiel Correia?
On the stand, co-conspirator Hildegar Camara testified that he considered Correia to be like a son, and that after meeting him while he was in high school with his daughter, over the years he tried to mentor him.
Joe Macy testified that another of the co-conspirators, Gen Andrade, who ran Correia s political campaigns and even worked as his chief of staff, used to drive him around and feed him. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington described her as mothering Correia. Sure sounds like she loved him.