The House speaker pledged passage of a bill legalizing recreational marijuana in the next 7 to 14 days.
Marijuana
Connecticut legalized adult-use cannabis in 2021, but it’s still unclear when recreational weed will be available to buy without a prescription.
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Senate narrowly votes to legalize marijuana in Connecticut
The Senate voted 19-17 early Tuesday for a bill to legalize recreational marijuana in Connecticut.
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Legislators say CT marijuana bill favored one potential producer
Connecticut’s marijuana legalization bill was rewritten to strike language favoring a potential applicant for a cultivation license.
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With three days left in legislative session, the rush is on to get bills passed
The House could vote on the budget today. A key senator is pushing for a Senate vote on legalizing marijuana.
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On 4/20 this year, legalizing pot is not enough
There was nothing mellow about this 4/20, the unofficial holiday for the celebration and consumption of cannabis.
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The calculus of cannabis: How legalizing pot became a political puzzle
Whether Connecticut legalizes marijuana depends on two legislators solving a puzzle of politics and numbers.
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Gov. Lamont’s cannabis bill passes out of Judiciary Committee, but not without changes
Revisions allow medical card-holders to grow their own plants and proposes that 55% of revenue go toward social-equity efforts.
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Equity issues dominate hearing on Lamont’s marijuana bill
The administration’s testimony took up the hearing’s first five hours. More than 130 people are signed up to speak.
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CT’s legal marijuana trade is ready to bloom
One medical pot grower just spent $7.6 million on a building with space equal to more than four football fields.
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CT budget debate heats up quickly over equity
Urban lawmakers on the Appropriations Committee charged Gov. Ned Lamont’s budget largely ignores inequities in education and health care.
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In budget speech, a governor caught between a desire for social justice and fiscal restraint
A tension between fiscal restraint and social justice was evident throughout the governor’s budget address.
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Lamont to outline fast-track blueprint for recreational pot
Gov. Ned Lamont is proposing legislation that would permit the sale and possession of recreational pot in Connecticut in May 2022.
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Lamont uses federal dollars and reserves to boost local aid, avert tax hikes in his new budget
While Lamont’s plan provides short-term stability, it also could leave Connecticut with challenges after the 2022 elections.
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In third year, still an uncertain relationship for Lamont and legislators
Gov. Ned Lamont and the legislature still struggle at times to figure out what the other is about.
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Lamont sets the stage for a debate on marijuana taxation by mid-2022
The governor’s draft bill proposes taxing marijuana and erasing convictions for possession that occurred prior to Oct. 1, 2015.
