How greater Bridgeport, the Naugatuck Valley are handling marijuana legalization – CTPost
Questions abound on how to handle the legalization of marijuana in Connecticut on a local level. While officials in the greater Bridgeport area and the Naugatuck Valley are still poring over the lengthy bill, some are already drawing direct links between marijuana smoking and cigarette smoking. Others have yet to figure out what regulations make sense for their community, but worry about the impact on policing and low-income neighborhoods. While municipalities will be allowed to limit the use of marijuana in public, those with populations over 50,000 — including Bridgeport, Stratford, Fairfield and Milford — must at least designate public…
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Weed Is Now Legal In Connecticut! — With Some Restrictions – WSHU
As of Thursday, recreational marijuana is officially legal to possess and use in Connecticut. Residents who are 21 and older are allowed to possess 1.5 ounces of marijuana. However, users cannot buy or sell from dispensaries until next year as well as grow their own plants until 2023. Smoking will be allowed in public areas. Medical marijuana users will no longer be required to go to a dispensary to get their supply. The new law prohibits landlords from refusing to rent to tenants who have a prior marijuana-related conviction. Also, colleges are not allowed to deny financial aid to students…
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Local officials to decide whether it will be legal to smoke recreational marijuana publicly – News 12 Connecticut
Jun 30, 2021, 9:28pmUpdated on Jul 01, 2021 By: News 12 Staff Recreational marijuana is legal for adults across the state July 1 – so now, it’s up to local officials where it will be legal to smoke publicly. Communities with 50,000 or more residents must designate at least one area where it’s allowed. In Fairfield, officials say they’re not sure yet what a designated smoking area might look like but that you certainly won’t be able to smoke marijuana anywhere you can’t smoke cigarettes. Fairfield First Selectwoman Brenda Kupchick says the law isn’t clear on what that’s supposed to look like….
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ANSWER DESK: Where can medical marijuana patients buy seeds, clones starting Oct. 1? – WFSB
MA/CT (WFSB) — One of the biggest new laws on the books Thursday was recreational marijuana. With that new law comes a lot of questions, including what’s allowed when growing marijuana. In just three months, medical marijuana patients can start growing plants at home. The state’s laws on this will be similar to the ones in Massachusetts. Technically any dispensary can sell seeds, but how easy is it to actually find them? “Producing seeds in a dispensary is kind of a nightmare,” said Jon Napoli, owner of The Boston Gardener. When lawmakers legalized recreational marijuana, they also wanted to protect…
Read More »Nearly 100 new laws take effect in Connecticut on July 1. Here’s a look at some of them, from legal marijuana to school curriculum – Hartford Courant
Gov. Ned Lamont is shown signing a landmark law on sports betting and online gambling legislation in his office at the state Capitol. The legislation takes effect July 1, but sports betting is not expected to start until the first National Football League game on Sept. 9. The Norman Rockwell painting behind the governor is an original that belongs to Lamont. (Office of Gov. Ned Lamont)
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Recreational Marijuana Now Legal in Connecticut – NBC Connecticut – NBC Connecticut
As of Thursday, it is now legal for adults in Connecticut to possess and even consume small amounts of marijuana. The new law allows individuals age 21 and older to possess or consume up to 1.5 ounces (42.5 grams) of “cannabis plant material” and up to 5 ounces (141.7 grams) in a locked container in a home or in the trunk or locked glove box in the person’s vehicle. There’s a series of fines and other measures for violators, including mandatory referral to youth services bureaus for 2nd-time juvenile offenders. Also beginning Thursday, the odor of cannabis or burnt cannabis…
Read More »A showdown in Newtown over a proposed weed ban is planned the same day pot becomes legal in CT – Danbury News Times
NEWTOWN – Leaders here are not alone in their haste to preempt Connecticut’s marijuana legalization law that goes into effect on Thursday, but Newtown will be the first municipality in the area to put a proposed ban on cannabis establishments before the public. Newtown’s public hearing on Thursday to ban all cannabis establishments including medicinal dispensaries will give residents their first chance to weigh in on marijuana legalization since June 22, when Gov. Ned Lamont signed into law “a national model for regulating adult-use cannabis.” Ridgefield and Danbury leaders have announced their own intentions to forestall recreational marijuana businesses from…
Read More »Legal marijuana in Connecticut: A timeline – CTPost
June 30, 2021Updated: June 30, 2021 5:55 p.m. 1of3 A cannibis plant that is close to harvest grows in a grow room at the Greenleaf Medical Cannabis facility in Richmond, Va., Thursday, June 17, 2021. The date for legalizing marijuana possession is drawing near in Virginia, and advocacy groups have been flooded with calls from people trying to understand exactly what becomes legal in July. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) Steve Helber / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Tins of Green Leaf medicated chews are stacked up at the company’s plant in Richmond, Va., Thursday, June 17, 2021. The date for legalizing marijuana…
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