Connecticut to Begin Accepting Applications for Adult-Use Cannabis Establishments This Week February 1, 2022 AggregatedNews Connecticut 0 Comments The state Department of Consumer Protection is going to start accepting applications for some adult-use cannabis establishment license types. Cannabis was approved for adult use in Connecticut in June 2021 and retail sales are anticipated to begin in the state… Read More→
As legal sales near, Connecticut cannabis ‘gifting’ parties gain momentum January 24, 2022 AggregatedNews Connecticut 0 Comments Seven months into the legal recreational marijuana landscape, Connecticut’s previously underground cannabis community is enjoying public consumption parties where growers show off flower specimens in what they believe is a gray area in the law. Groups such as the CT CannaWarriors, High… Read More→
Group forms to help give equal access to Connecticut’s new cannabis market November 30, 2021 AggregatedNews Connecticut 0 Comments A new association has been formed to ensure Black and other under represented communities will have an opportunity to participate in Connecticut’s new legalized recreational marijuana industry, as state legislators had promised. The Alliance for Cannabis Equity, or ACE, created… Read More→
Federal law poses challenges to new Connecticut cannabis businesses November 29, 2021 AggregatedNews Connecticut 1 Comment When Lisa Capitani decided to start a small business to educate and guide medical marijuana patients, she knew she’d need some advice. So Capitani, a nurse who lives in Newtown, turned to other nurses across the country who have cannabis-related… Read More→
Five things to know about recreational marijuana in Connecticut June 11, 2021 AggregatedNews Connecticut 0 Comments Democratic House leaders announced Wednesday that they would be going into special session and voting on a recreational marijuana bill sometime this month. The legislative session is ending at midnight Wednesday night. "My hunch is they can't get it done… Read More→
Connecticut Senate narrowly approves legalizing recreational marijuana, 19-17 June 8, 2021 AggregatedNews Connecticut 0 Comments After a nearly five-hour debate into the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the state Senate narrowly voted 19-17 to legalize recreational marijuana, with one Republican joining Democrats in a controversial result that now moves the issue to the House of… Read More→
Legal weed deal reached between Gov. Lamont, Connecticut lawmakers; homegrown OK’d in 2023; still needs approval in coming days June 7, 2021 AggregatedNews Connecticut 0 Comments After five years of efforts, Connecticut lawmakers have reached a wide-ranging compromise on legalizing recreational marijuana that Gov. Ned Lamont will sign if passed by the legislature. Final approval, however, remains uncertain because the measure requires votes by the state… Read More→
Connecticut Takes First Steps Toward Legalizing Recreational Marijuana April 11, 2021 AggregatedNews Connecticut 0 Comments A bill that would legalize recreational marijuana cleared its first hurdle Tuesday when the judiciary committee approved it by a narrow margin. “I am a proponent of legalizing cannabis,” Sen. Gary Winfield (D-New Haven) said. Winfield said he supports both… Read More→
Connecticut’s legal marijuana trade is ready to bloom February 15, 2021 AggregatedNews Connecticut 0 Comments On the coldest and grayest days of winter, a warm and improbably bright yellow light reliably shines on a dense thicket of plantings deep inside a repurposed warehouse. They are marijuana plants, some as tall as Christmas trees, thick with… Read More→
Advocates make new push to legalize recreational marijuana in Connecticut January 28, 2021 AggregatedNews Connecticut 0 Comments Proponents of legal cannabis in Connecticut said there’s a better than average chance a bill will pass in 2021, while opponents said the old barriers still haven’t been removed. “I’m hoping there isn’t a stumbling block to passing legislation this… Read More→
Cannabis producers expand for growth, legalization in Connecticut December 21, 2020 AggregatedNews Connecticut 0 Comments The state’s four licensed marijuana growers are planning for the inevitable, if not imminent, approval of cannabis sales for adult recreational use in Connecticut by expanding their footprints. With the state’s fragile economy — all the worse in the coronavirus… Read More→
Still a close vote: Lawmakers outline two paths to recreational cannabis in Connecticut November 24, 2020 AggregatedNews Connecticut 0 Comments On the campus of a medical marijuana grower in Rocky Hill, state lawmakers on Tuesday outlined two possible paths to legalizing recreational marijuana, which has eluded Connecticut for years while neighboring states have passed it. The first — voting on… Read More→
Study: Legal marijuana in Connecticut would raise between $784M and $952M in state taxes in first five years September 16, 2020 AggregatedNews Connecticut 0 Comments A new study by a UConn economist says legalizing recreational marijuana in Connecticut would generate between $784 million and $952 million in new state tax revenue over five years. The study, funded by a national group that lobbies for marijuana… Read More→
Connecticut adds chronic pain to medical marijuana program, could double participating patients June 3, 2020 AggregatedNews Connecticut 0 Comments Thousands of new patients who suffer from chronic pain will soon be able to join the state’s medical cannabis program, following a vote Tuesday morning — after no debate — by the General Assembly’s only bipartisan committee. Connecticut will now become… Read More→
Connecticut’s recreational marijuana legalization efforts in limbo May 4, 2020 AggregatedNews Connecticut 0 Comments his year’s canceled legislative session prevented the General Assembly from voting on many hot-button issues — including potentially making Connecticut the 12th state to legalize recreational marijuana sales. In early March, Gov. Ned Lamont gave his full support for adult-use… Read More→