- McKinney (opinion): The case for public cannabis retailers
![The first customers make purchases at Apothecarium Dispensary last month in Maplewood, N.J., marking the first day of legal recreational marijuana sales in the state of New Jersey.]()
- CT cannabis license chances low for equity applicants
![Hugh Gallman says he knows he has a “slim-to-none” chance of obtaining a Connecticut cannabis retail license.]()
- City cannabis dispensary gets zoning OK for recreational sales
![Along with potentially opening its Stamford dispensary to both medical and recreational cannabis sales, Fine Fettle Dispensary will install a new post sign outside the facility. The Zoning Board ultimately approved a 10-foot sign on the property, down six feet from what the applicant proposed.]()
- Chicago cannabis company proposes hybrid dispensary in Newington
![MAPLEWOOD, NEW JERSEY - APRIL 21: The first customers make purchases at Apothecarium Dispensary on April 21, 2022 in Maplewood, New Jersey. Verano, a Chicago-based cannabis company, is proposing to open a hybrid dispensary in Newington, CT later this year. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)]()
- Enfield zoning commission approves recreational marijuana rules
![Orders for cannabis products are filled at a recreational Curaleaf dispensary, Thursday, April 21, 2022, in Bellmawr, N.J. Officials in Enfield recently approved regulations to allow the adult-use industry in the Connecticut town. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)]()
- CT retail cannabis applications surge to 15,000 before deadline
![Retail sales of recreational cannabis sales are expected to start later this year, and some of Connecticut’s municipalities have placed moratoriums or outright bans on recreational cannabis businesses.]()
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![The writer of this letter, writes it about an experience, that he, and other students at the Scotland Elementary School in Ridgefield, recently had, along with an event on Saturday, May 14, at 8 a.m., and that the students are inviting the members of the community to, and to walk a two mile route from the St. Mary’s School in Ridgefield, to the Cass Gilbert Fountain in Ridgefield.]()
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![In this Feb. 7, 2011 file photo a person smokes a cigarette in Hialeah, Fla. An updated ordinance on smoking was just approved by the Torrington City Council this week.]()
- A marketplace is being set up. A host of regulatory issues are being addressed. By the end of the year, dispensaries should be operating all over Connecticut. By Dan Woog
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![Green Thumb Industries has marijuana facilities in more than a dozen states such as this one in Massachusetts, shown in 2019.]()
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![Advanced Grow Labs CEO David Lipton, right, stands in 2018 in a Flower Room that was modified to grow more marijuana plants using rolling bench tables to better utilize the square footage of the room. Tyler McKinley, an AGL production team member, left, opens the canopy of the cannabis plant so light can penetrate the lower flowering sights of the plant. The state has recently announced a system to track sales and production of cannabis.]()
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![Connecticut House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora, R-North Branford, speaks during the opening session at the State Capitol in 2021.]()
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![FILE- A cannibis plant that is close to harvest grows in a grow room at the Greenleaf Medical Cannabis facility in Richmond, Va., June 17, 2021. Marijuana would be decriminalized at the federal level under legislation that the House approved on Friday, April 1, 2022, as Democrats made the case for allowing states to set their own policies on pot. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)]()
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![The first five customers wait in line to enter Apothecarium Dispensary on April 21, 2022, in Maplewood, New Jersey. Dispensaries like this one may open in Connecticut soon for sale of recreational marijuana.]()
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![Hundreds of patrons visited the High Bazaar cannabis party in Hamden on January 15.]()
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![Easton Grows cannabis plants at the South Park Avenue property.]()
Medical Cannabis News
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![This Aug. 22, 2019 photo shows medical marijuana plants being grown before flowering during a media tour of the Curaleaf medical cannabis cultivation and processing facility in Ravena, N.Y. After legislative efforts stalled and a vaping sickness stirred new concerns, the governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut still want to make recreational pot legal. But the states have different approaches and timeframes, and some proposals have shifted since last year. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)]()
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![Cannabis items are for sale at Fine Fettle medical cannabis dispensary in Stamford, Conn. Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. The dispensary opened its doors to patients on Monday providing a variety of prescribed medical cannabis items and accessories.]()
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![Connecticut plans to license two general applicants and two social equity applicants as hybrid retailers.]()
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![Assistant manager Marion Baxter, PharmD, shows cannabis flower from the four Connecticut growers at Fine Fettle medical cannabis dispensary in Stamford, Conn. Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. The dispensary opened its doors to patients on Monday providing a variety of prescribed medical cannabis items and accessories.]()
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![Medical marijuana patients previously were able to get up to 3 ounces a month, and can now get up to 3.5 ounces monthly, officials announced on Friday, Feb. 18, 2022.]()
CBD News
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![National CBD retailer Your CBD Store has announced the opening of its New Milford store at 5 Church St.]()
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![The Breakroom, a coffee shop at 14 N Main Street in South Norwalk on Dec. 2, 2021.]()
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![Kristin Souza owns and operates Sugar Leaf at 109 College St. in Middletown. It features CBD products and accessories.]()
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![A Your CBD Store is expected to open soon in Wilton.]()
- LITCHFIELD — In the first few minutes listening to George Manzone, owner of the Litchfield County CBD Co., one might take him for a scientist or medical doctor, as he easily rolls out words like “endocannabinoid system,” “cerebellum” and “terpene... By Jo Ann Jaacks
