Newscast: Saturday, March 24, 2012 at 8:35 a.m.

A push in the VT Senate to lighten penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana may be going up in smoke. State officials say a Florida company’s charge that it has lost confidence in Jay Peak’s handling of a program that brings foreign investment to Vermont won’t have any long term repercussions. The EB5 Visa Program has brought more than $230 million into the state since 2005. Maple syrup producers from Vermont all the way to the Midwest have had their season cut short by unusually warm weather.