Police are investigating a shooting at Fifth and Spring streets in East Cambridge at approximately 1:30 a.m. Tuesday that left a 33-year-old man with non-life-threatening injuries.

Cambridge police use their fists and nightsticks, as well as pepper spray, and some have pointed guns at suspects who turned out to be unarmed. Officers ordered people out of a car at gunpoint and handcuffed them – in a case of mistaken identity. It’s all in their use-of-force reports.

There was an easy win Monday in support of following the decriminalization of marijuana with decriminalizing entheogenic plants, which include such things as mushrooms, cacti and ayahuasca.

Public meetings this week look at legalizing magic mushrooms, a delivery-driven street name change, trust and transparency around kids’ social-emotional health; town-gown reports from four institutions; ‘Green Roofs’ zoning petition; and Landmarking St. Augustine’s.

A head start for minority-owned sellers of recreational marijuana will no longer be fought in court by the Revolutionary Clinics medical marijuana dispensary, according to a Thursday press release from the company.

Public meetings this week look at securing more money to get businesses, households and the homeless through the coronavirus; a 46-unit project for Central Square; asking what IQHQ will do about its polluted Jerry’s Pond; how the green line extension is going; and much more.

Public meetings this week look at the next stages of pandemic response; school reopening funds and whether neighborhood groups are inclusive; Harvard Square street traffic closings; and a Cannabis Delivery-Only Zoning Petition.

An organization for racial equity in the cannabis industry has called opposition to a proposed Harvard Square pot shop racist, drawing a response Tuesday expressing regret and saying the opposition is solely about having marijuana sold prominently across from a park.

A court decision Thursday brushed off the third attempt to stop Cambridge from giving smaller, minority-led businesses a two-year head start on marijuana sales, while city councillors took a step this week to add delivery-only pot businesses to its law.

A court decision Thursday brushed off the third attempt to stop Cambridge from giving smaller, minority-led businesses a two-year head start on marijuana sales, while city councillors took a step this week to add delivery-only pot businesses to its law.