{"id":942,"date":"2021-06-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiEDDd_8UpiPgVsY-4K7zDhaMqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow3cCjCzCgy7sDMKy5hAc"},"modified":"2021-06-09T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T07:00:00","slug":"connecticut-pushes-recreational-marijuana-legalization-to-a-special-session-marijuana-business-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut pushes recreational marijuana legalization to a special session – Marijuana Business Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Connecticut House of Representatives postponed a vote<\/a> on legalizing recreational marijuana and instead will consider the issue in a special session before the end of the month, a top lawmaker said.<\/p>\n

The announcement by House Speaker Matt Ritter came as the legislative session was scheduled to adjourn later Wednesday and followed the likelihood of a GOP filibuster to thwart a vote, according to the Hartford Courant.<\/p>\n

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The state Senate narrowly passed the legalization measure<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n

MJBizDaily<\/em> has projected that a Connecticut recreational marijuana market could generate $250 million in sales in the first full year and $725 million in the fourth year.<\/p>\n

A compromise agreement<\/a> negotiated over the weekend between key lawmakers and Gov. Ned Lamont, a Democrat, had cleared the way for potential legislative passage this week.<\/p>\n

Lamont has said he wants the adult-use market to launch by May 2022.<\/p>\n

Among other things, the compromise agreement would emphasize social equity applicants.<\/p>\n

The measure also would enable existing medical cannabis cultivators to grow for an adult-use market, but they would have to pay a hefty fee in order to do so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Connecticut House of Representatives postponed a vote on legalizing recreational marijuana and instead will consider the issue in a special session before the end of the month, a top lawmaker said. The announcement by House Speaker Matt Ritter came as the legislative session was scheduled to adjourn later Wednesday and followed the likelihood of a GOP filibuster to thwart a vote, according to the Hartford Courant. The state Senate narrowly passed the legalization measure earlier this week. MJBizDaily has projected that a Connecticut recreational marijuana market could generate $250 million in sales in the first full year and $725… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":943,"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-942","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\/connecticut-pushes-recreational-marijuana-legalization-to-a-special-session-marijuana-business-daily.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","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=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}