House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz was skeptical Tuesday that the legislature would resolve any major gaming issues or the legalization of marijuana this spring. Continue Reading →
Speaker: Gaming issues, pot legalization likely to wait until 2019
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Advocates for marijuana sales point to big economic boost
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Advocates for legalizing recreational marijuana use in Connecticut — and taxing its sales — are hoping a holistic, economic argument will win the day this year. Supporters say the potential to bolster the state’s tourism industry, create jobs, and even encourage young professionals to locate here, should attract votes for an issue that couldn’t get a vote in the House or Senate in 2017. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy, Health Care, Politics, Connecticut state budget, marijuana, Martin M. Looney
Pot legalization is latest issue debated, then tabled
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The House of Representatives debated the legalization of recreational marijuana use for 90 minutes late Tuesday afternoon, only to table it afterward. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy, Civil and criminal justice, Health Care, Politics, legalized marijuana, marijuana, pot legalization, recreational marijuana
Pot legalization measure bogs down in partisan feud
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The legislature provided the latest example from a dysfunctional session Monday as a bipartisan effort to legalize recreational marijuana broke down minutes before its public announcement. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy, Health Care, Politics, budget2017, Connecticut state budget, deficit, marijuana
Democrats will push legalizing pot as part of budget fix
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Senate and House Democrats will recommend the legalization, licensing and taxation of marijuana sales in Connecticut to help balance the next state budget, sources close to the caucuses told The Mirror. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy, budget2017, marijuana
If you stay long enough, the General Assembly will hear you
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Bill MacDonald got right to it. Incurable cancer can do that, give a man a heightened sense of time, and MacDonald had just waited five hours for the chance to address the legislature’s Judiciary Committee in Room 2C. He’d get exactly three minutes, the standard allotted to witnesses as public hearings. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Politics, General Assembly, marijuana, public hearings
Session Notes: Legalizing pot gets its hearing
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It’s a steep climb for proponents of legalized marijuana in Connecticut. The legislature’s Judiciary Committee killed a legalization bill without even holding a public hearing this year, and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy appears unalterably opposed. But the issue cleared one threshold Tuesday: It was the subject of an informational hearing. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Colorado, Dan Pabon, Juan Candelaria, legalized marijuana, marijuana, Session Notes
CT lawmakers vote to keep feds from enforcing marijuana laws
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WASHINGTON – Connecticut’s House delegation on Friday voted unanimously for a measure– sponsored by a California Republican — that would stop federal agencies from enforcing marijuana laws against state-approved medical marijuana programs. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Washington, Congress, Dana Rorabacher, House, marijuana
Connecticut is OK with pot, medically or recreationally
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Connecticut voters strongly support the state’s legalization of marijuana for medical treatment in 2012 and are open, by a closer margin, to allowing its recreational use, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Health Care, Politics, death penalty, gun control, marijuana, Quinnipiac University poll
Connecticut has 1,154 medical marijuana patients, but no applicants to grow or provide the drug yet
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As of Tuesday, there were 1,154 patients certified to use marijuana for medicinal purposes in Connecticut, according to the state Department of Consumer Protection. Of those, 365 live in New Haven County, 281 live in Fairfield County, and 222 live in Hartford County. Tolland County has 28 patients, the fewest of any county. Continue Reading →