{"id":1066,"date":"2021-06-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CBMiaGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LndzaHUub3JnL3Bvc3QvbWFyaWp1YW5hLXdpbGwtc29vbi1iZS1sZWdhbC1jb25uZWN0aWN1dC1kb250LXRyeS1idXktYW55LW9uZS13YXRlcmJ1cnktc3VidXJi0gEA"},"modified":"2021-06-23T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T07:00:00","slug":"marijuana-will-soon-be-legal-in-connecticut-but-dont-try-to-buy-any-in-one-waterbury-suburb-wshu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana Will Soon Be Legal In Connecticut. But Don&#8217;t Try To Buy Any In One Waterbury Suburb. &#8211; WSHU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/marijuana-will-soon-be-legal-in-connecticut-but-dont-try-to-buy-any-in-one-waterbury-suburb-wshu.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>At least one town in Connecticut won\u2019t join the rest of the state in allowing recreational marijuana stores.<\/p>\n<p>Prospect is a conservative-leaning suburb of Waterbury, in the state\u2019s Naugatuck Valley. Town officials voted unanimously to block retail sales at a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m totally against this coming in,&#8221; said Prospect resident Rich Blank at the meeting. &#8220;I\u2019m totally against the law being passed, even, but I have no say in that of course. I just don\u2019t want to see it get into the hands of kids. It\u2019s gonna be a total mess, and it\u2019s just something they\u2019re doing for money. And I just don\u2019t agree with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prospect and other towns can opt out of marijuana retail under the law signed by Governor Ned Lamont this week. But cities and towns can\u2019t penalize marijuana use itself.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Robert Chatfield, a first responder, told the commission he\u2019s worried marijuana will lead to fatal car accidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody\u2019ll buy it in another town, and I\u2019m afraid we\u2019re going to see motor vehicle deaths or accidents because people are high driving when they shouldn\u2019t be. So anything you can do to keep the sales out of town, I support whatever you\u2019re doing,\u201d Chatfield said.<\/p>\n<p>Marijuana will remain illegal for people under 21, but Chatfield said he worries adults will buy it for younger people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least one town in Connecticut won\u2019t join the rest of the state in allowing recreational marijuana stores. Prospect is a conservative-leaning suburb of Waterbury, in the state\u2019s Naugatuck Valley. Town officials voted unanimously to block retail sales at a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m totally against this coming in,&#8221; said Prospect resident Rich Blank at the meeting. &#8220;I\u2019m totally against the law being passed, even, but I have no say in that of course. I just don\u2019t want to see it get into the hands of kids. It\u2019s gonna be a total mess, and it\u2019s just something they\u2019re&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/marijuana-will-soon-be-legal-in-connecticut-but-dont-try-to-buy-any-in-one-waterbury-suburb-wshu.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}