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When mainstream politicians embrace cannabis, it's definitely not cool anymore.
An 18-second clip of a song about Connecticut wound up with two political sides debating...
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In his letter to Tong, Stefanowski asks whether “taxpayer dollars” were used to produce the 18-second video or whether its reference to marijuana being legal in Connecticut could be construed as a violation of the portion of Public Act 21-1 relating to advertising.
Gov. Ned Lamont’s tweet of an 18-second snippet from a satirical country song that bemoans the difficulty of rhyming anything with Connecticut, while mentioning marijuana and internet gambling as among its blessings, has Republican Bob Stefanowski singing the blues. To be precise, Stefanowski’s gubernatorial campaign released a letter Tuesday in which he asks Attorney General William Tong to investigate whether the governor’s tweet violates a state law regulating cannabis advertising or if state money was used to produce an accompanying video.