{"id":2668,"date":"2021-07-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CBMiemh0dHBzOi8vY29ubmVjdGljdXQubmV3czEyLmNvbS9sb2NhbC1vZmZpY2lhbHMtdG8tZGVjaWRlLXdoZXRoZXItaXQtd2lsbC1iZS1sZWdhbC10by1zbW9rZS1yZWNyZWF0aW9uYWwtbWFyaWp1YW5hLXB1YmxpY2x50gEA"},"modified":"2021-07-01T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T07:00:00","slug":"local-officials-to-decide-whether-it-will-be-legal-to-smoke-recreational-marijuana-publicly-news-12-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=2668","title":{"rendered":"Local officials to decide whether it will be legal to smoke recreational marijuana publicly &#8211; News 12 Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/local-officials-to-decide-whether-it-will-be-legal-to-smoke-recreational-marijuana-publicly-news-12-connecticut.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\">\n<p><span class=\"public-at\">Jun 30, 2021, 9:28pm<\/span><span class=\"text\">Updated on Jul 01, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>By: <\/span><span class=\"author\">News 12 Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Recreational marijuana is legal for adults across the state July 1 &#8211; so now, it&#8217;s up to local officials where it will be legal to smoke publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Communities with 50,000 or more residents must designate at least one area where it&#8217;s allowed.<\/p>\n<p>In Fairfield, officials say they&#8217;re not sure yet what a designated smoking area might look like but that you certainly won&#8217;t be able to smoke marijuana anywhere you can&#8217;t smoke cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>Fairfield First&nbsp;Selectwoman&nbsp;Brenda Kupchick says the law isn&#8217;t clear on what that&#8217;s supposed to look like. Residents say they don&#8217;t want to see or smell marijuana on public thoroughfares.<\/p>\n<p>Kupchick says until the law becomes more clear, Fairfield residents are encouraged to play it safe.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That means no public parks, open spaces or on the beach for those fireworks this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Recreational sales are expected to start in Connecticut before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"related-stories\" class=\"jsx-2652667184\">\n<p><span class=\"jsx-2652667184\">Related <\/span><span class=\"jsx-2652667184\">Stories<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"share-icons\"><span>Share this story<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jun 30, 2021, 9:28pmUpdated on Jul 01, 2021 By: News 12 Staff Recreational marijuana is legal for adults across the state July 1 &#8211; so now, it&#8217;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&#8217;s allowed. In Fairfield, officials say they&#8217;re not sure yet what a designated smoking area might look like but that you certainly won&#8217;t be able to smoke marijuana anywhere you can&#8217;t smoke cigarettes. Fairfield First&nbsp;Selectwoman&nbsp;Brenda Kupchick says the law isn&#8217;t clear on what that&#8217;s supposed to look like&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2669,"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-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/local-officials-to-decide-whether-it-will-be-legal-to-smoke-recreational-marijuana-publicly-news-12-connecticut.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","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=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}