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Connecticut House speaker says final vote on legal weed will happen in special session before end of June

Efforts to legalize marijuana once again fell short in the General Assembly this year, but House Speaker Matt Ritter pledged that lawmakers will take it up in a special session before July 1.

“It’s going to be voted on … and it’s going to pass,” Ritter predicted.

Lawmakers have been discussing legalizing recreational cannabis for adults for the past five years but this year, the measure had more momentum. The Senate approved the bill early Tuesday, marking the first time a recreational marijuana legalization bill cleared a legislative chamber in Connecticut.

But then the bill’s momentum stalled and Ritter declined to call it for a vote in the House before the session ended at midnight on Wednesday.

The Democratic speaker blamed Republicans, saying they threatened to talk the bill to death as the legislative clock wound down.

But House Republican Leader Vin Candelora rejected that characterization. “It’s preposterous to suggest that a 300-page bill is going to be filibustered,” he said. “It was less the threat of a filibuster and more a reality of when midnight comes, the debate has to end.”

“To ask Republicans to sit down, shut up and just vote for the bill is not the way our deliberative body should be operating,” Candelora added.

Gov. Ned Lamont, a Democrat who supports marijuana legalization, seemed to be nonplussed over the machinations of the legislature. [Read More @ Hartford Courant.com]

 

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