CT S.B. 11

Have you read S.B. 11?

Good Morning Everyone.  This week is a milestone in the Connecticut cannabis legalization process.  Are you ready to support S.B. 11?  Make sure to give it a read.  This proposed bill will grant adults 21 and over the ability to grow 5 plants at a time.  It also discusses how recreational cannabis would be implemented by July 2018.  Hopefully soon, people will have a safer alternative to alcohol and we can see the end to the cannabis stigmas and prohibition.  Time to wake up people.

If you are unable to make the trip to Hartford on Wednesday March, 22, 2017, please submit your testimonial.  We all should share our support and experiences.  (click more for details).  Thank you Senator Looney!

JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 2017

Judiciary Committee Agenda

The Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 10:00 A.M. in Room 2C of the LOB.  Public speaker order will be determined by a lottery system.  Lottery numbers will be drawn from 7:30 A.M. to 9:30 A.M. in Room 2500 of the LOB.  Speakers arriving after the completion of the lottery will have their names placed at the end of the speaker list.  Please submit 50 copies of written testimony to the Committee staff any day prior to but no later than 9:00 A.M. in Room 2500 of the LOB.  Written testimony submitted by a person(s) or organization(s) which exceeds five (5) single-sided pages per bill or resolution will only be posted on the Judiciary Committee’s website at the discretion of the Judiciary Committee chairs.  Testimony received after the designated time may not be distributed until after the hearing.

Please email written testimony in Word or PDF format to JUDtestimony@cga.ct.gov.  Testimony should clearly state testifier name and related Bills.  The Committee requests that testimony be limited to matters related to the items on the Agenda.  The first hour of the hearing is reserved for Legislators, Constitutional Officers, State Agency Heads and Chief Elected Municipal Officials.  Speakers will be limited to three minutes of testimony.  The Committee encourages witnesses to submit a written statement and to condense oral testimony to a summary of that statement.  Unofficial sign-up sheets have no standing with the Committee.  All public hearing testimony, written and spoken, is public information.  As such, it may be made available on the Judiciary Committee’s website and indexed by internet search engines.

SUBJECT MATTER:  Marijuana and Drug Related Bills

S.B. No. 11 (COMM) AN ACT CONCERNING THE LEGALIZATION AND TAXATION OF THE RETAIL SALE OF MARIJUANA.

S.B. No. 1032 (RAISED) AN ACT CONCERNING TECHNICAL REORGANIZATION OF STATUTES INVOLVING THE ILLEGAL SALE OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

S.B. No. 1039 (RAISED) AN ACT CONCERNING CRIMINAL LIABILITY IN THE CASE OF DRUG OVERDOSE DEATHS, INCREASING THE PENALTY FOR THE POSSESSION OF A NARCOTIC AND CRIMINALIZING THE MISBRANDING OF SYNTHETIC DRUGS.

H.B. No. 7289 (RAISED) AN ACT CONCERNING OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MARIJUANA.

H.B. No. 7290 (RAISED) AN ACT INCREASING PENALTIES FOR DEALING SYNTHETIC DRUGS.

H.B. No. 7292 (RAISED) AN ACT CONCERNING THE CLASSIFICATION OF DRUGS AND CREATING DRUG DEALER CIVIL LIABILITY.