Danbury could temporarily ban weed sales, but some concerned city will miss out on economic benefits – Danbury News Times
DANBURY — One city commission didn’t doubt that Danbury should temporarily prohibit Danbury retailers from selling pot. But members of the Planning Commission questioned how long the proposed moratorium on cannabis establishments should be in effect. “I would urge the department to move this along,” commission member Perry Salvagne IV said Wednesday evening. “Economically, the train is leaving the station. I don’t want our community, our local businesses, our residents to not be able to benefit from something the rest of the state is going to be able to benefit form economically.” Joel Urice, vice chairman of the Planning Commission,…
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Congressional Lawmakers Seek To Build Support For Amendment To Protect All Marijuana States From Federal Interference – Marijuana Moment
A bipartisan group of congressional lawmakers is circulating a letter to build support for a spending bill amendment they’re introducing this week that would protect all state and tribal marijuana programs from federal interference—going beyond the existing measure that shields only medical cannabis states that’s currently enacted into law. The amendment and its supporting Dear Colleague memo, which were shared with Marijuana Moment, is being led by Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Tom McClintock (R-CA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Barbara Lee (D-CA). The lawmakers explained that the proposed amendment to spending legislation would add “language preventing the Department of Justice…
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Informational website for medical marijuana users closes after Connecticut regulators ban cannabis street names. ‘Fruity pebbles’ and ‘wedding cake’ deemed inappropriate. – Hartford Courant
A website, Terp_Street, that provided information on medical marijuana, shut down after the Department of Consumer Protection said it ordered it to stop using street names for cannabis. Pictured here is Ian Golandro, a production associate at Advanced Grow Labs in West Haven. (Mark Mirko / Hartford Courant)
Read More »How to Invest in Cannabis Without Touching the Product
July 21, 2021 4 min read Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. The cannabis industry in the United States has experienced a massive boom over the past few years. So much so that retailers have shifted strategies from simply being on shelves to working to establish brand identities that resonate with customers. That’s a sign of an industry that is here to stay. It’s no surprise, really. Together, the…
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Connecticut Legalizes Recreational Marijuana, Will Allow Employers to Continue Prohibiting Recreational Marijuana Use – JD Supra
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont recently signed Senate Bill 1201, making Connecticut the 19th state to legalize recreational marijuana for adults 21 years or older. The new law not only requires expungement of certain existing marijuana convictions, but also creates employment protections for recreational marijuana users. While these protections are more limited than those recently recognized in neighboring states New York1 and New Jersey,2 Connecticut employers should review current policies and practices to ensure they are prepared for the changes by July 1, 2022, the effective date of the new employment provisions. Notably, the new law expressly permits employers to continue to prohibit…
Read More »You can study pot at UConn, but CT communities not rushing into marijuana economy – New Haven Register
Connecticut communities are proceeding with caution as the state navigates the early stages of legalized recreational marijuana. Gov. Ned Lamont made Connecticut the 19th state in the country to legalize recreational marijuana, signing a bill into law late last month that legislators has passed earlier this year. John Rosen, an economics professor at the University of New Haven, said Lamont and Connecticut lawmakers really had no choice given that neighboring states already had done so. “With Connecticut being a physically small state, people have been going to buy it in neighboring states,” he said. While experts are predicting certain aspects…
Read More »The $8 Billion Question: Which Towns Will Cash In on Marijuana? – The New York Times
On the West Coast, California and the neighboring states of Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona, where marijuana is also legal, are likely to remain the country’s dominant market. In Massachusetts, the city of Easthampton, which opened its first dispensary in December 2018, and is close to at least five colleges, expects to be home to five dispensaries by the end of the year, the mayor, Nicole LaChapelle, said. The extra revenue has been tremendously helpful, she said, especially during the pandemic. A small 1,000-square-foot dispensary generated $84,000 in revenue for the city of roughly 16,000 in April, May and June…
Read More »Surgeon general backs cannabis decrim (Newsletter: July 19, 2021) – Marijuana Moment
MD House speaker: put marijuana on ballot; More cannabis protections in Congress; RI Senate pres’s legalization talks; IL cannabis $ for anti-violence Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Your good deed for the day: donate to an independent publisher like Marijuana Moment and ensure that as many voters as possible have access to the most in-depth cannabis reporting out there.Support our work at https://www.patreon.com/marijuanamoment/ TOP THINGS TO KNOWSurgeon General Vivek Murthy appeared to…
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