In a stroke of regulatory genius only a state legislature could pull off, Connecticut has decided that starting October 1, cannabis concentrates can finally be as skull-meltingly potent as nature—and chemistry—intended. Adult-use dispensaries will officially bid farewell to the state’s long-standing 70% THC cap on waxes, shatters, oils, and live resins, allowing extract lovers to inhale ninety-something percent purity with the state’s official blessing.
Getting here took the usual round of legislative gymnastics. Back in May, Governor Ned Lamont signed Public Act 26-8, which bravely decided that artificial potency limits on weed were silly and scrapped the caps for both flower and concentrates across the board. But apparently, the thought of someone encountering a slightly too-dank eighth of dry bud sent Hartford into a brief moral panic, prompting lawmakers to immediately scramble and pass Public Act 26-100 a few weeks later. That quick fix dutifully slapped the sacred 35% THC ceiling right back onto dried flower, because heaven forbid a bud gets too resinous, while happily leaving the concentrate market free to fly straight into the stratosphere without any cap at all.
So, come October, the arbitrary 70% ceiling that previously spared only prefilled vape carts will vanish into a cloud of solventless vapor. Naturally, the state isn’t letting everyone off without some bureaucratic finger-wagging: high-octane dabs will still be plastered with glaring warning labels, tucked behind mandatory display hoops, and policed with strict marketing rules designed to remind everyone that high-potency cannabis is, in fact, potent. But at least dispensary shoppers will no longer have to worry about the state protecting them from the horrors of pure shatter while looking the other way on vape pens.
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