The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection has the audacity to announce a public comment period for cannabis regulations like they’ve suddenly grown a conscience. For years, they’ve been stumbling through the weed game with the grace of a drunk elephant, ignoring feedback from actual users, advocates, and business owners alike. Now, they’re asking for “input” on adult-use and medical marijuana regulations, pretending they’ll actually listen this time. Spoiler alert: they won’t.
This is the same agency that cobbled together policies and procedures with little regard for the people who live, breathe, and work in the cannabis space. Every decision so far has felt like a nod to bureaucrats and corporate interests while leaving patients, caregivers, and small businesses scrambling. Medical marijuana users? You’re apparently just an afterthought in this regulatory circus.
They’re talking about creating “clarity, stability, and consistency” like they haven’t been in charge of a policy clown show from the start. Merging medical marijuana and adult-use policies sounds like a half-baked attempts to simplify something they’ve been overcomplicating for years. They say the new regulations will bring cohesion, but we all know what that really means: whatever benefits them, not the public.
Sure, we can all drop our comments by January 10, 2025, and watch them pile up in the trash can of disregard. Because, let’s be honest, the people running this show have been selectively deaf to real concerns since day one. So, go ahead, speak your piece—just don’t hold your breath for change. After all, there’s no profit in listening when they’ve already decided the game.
I think this would be the best idea.
Keep it weird,
