Equitable Regulation News Today

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has filed lawsuits against seven local cannabis businesses for violating the state's Unfair Trade Practices Act. The businesses facing lawsuits are three wholesalers and four retailers. They have been accused of selling illegal high-THC cannabis that has not undergone the state's rigorous testing standards or been properly labelled. Some of the products are said to have packaging designed to appeal to children. Each violation could carry a pena...

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued cease and desist letters to HighBazaar, an organizer of an unlicensed cannabis market within the state, and to the Masonic Temple Day Spring Lodge in Hamden, which hosts the market.

A group of Stamford residents asking a court to strike down Connecticut’s legal cannabis law described the policy’s social equity provisions as discriminatory and “riddled” with racial distinctions, in a court document filed this week.

On August 9, a lawsuit was filed in Connecticut that aims to stop all legal cannabis activity in the state and declare the state’s 2021 legalization framework as unconstitutional. The...

The Stamford Neighborhoods Coalition filed an anti-cannabis lawsuit naming the City of Stamford and Mayor Caroline Simmons as defendants while seeking to outlaw cannabis retailing in the state.

At the conclusion of the 2023 legislative session on June 7, four bills containing cannabis provisions passed the House and Senate. One of these bills, the biennial state budget (House Bill 6941)...

Art Linares was a vocal opponent to the legalization of cannabis during his stint as a state senator. Now he has a stake in a canabis cultivation operation.

Businesses entering the provisional license stage in Connecticut's nascent adult-use cannabis market are beginning to grapple with labor and employment issues.

On February 9, Attorney General William Tong sued five Connecticut retailers for violating the state’s Unfair Trade Practices Act (UTPA) by selling allegedly illegal delta-8...

As an HR director for a Connecticut school district, I read with interest your response last week to the security guard who caught a teacher lighting up a marijuana...