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As of Thursday, July 1, marijuana will be legalized for recreational use among adults in Connecticut, though as part of the legislation signed into law by Gov. Ned Lamont, some municipalities will have to create designated spaces outdoors intended for smoking weed.
Cities with populations under 50,000 residents can say no to smoking in public, but those over 50,000 have two choices: if they decide to regulate where people can smoke, they must designate a location to allow them to do so or simply let them act as they please.
Smoking near schools and playgrounds will be prohibited, and there will be limitations of where dispensaries are permitted to open.
When it becomes legalized, adults will not be permitted to have more than an ounce and a half of marijuana on their person, and no more than five ounces in their homes or locked in their car, truck, or glove box.
Selling, manufacturing, or cultivating cannabis will require a license from the state, and those unlicensed by the state may gift marijuana but not sell it.
Patients participating in Connecticut’s medical marijuana program will be permitted to cultivate up to six cannabis plants - three mature, three immature - within their homes as of Oct. 1 this year. Adults over the age of 21 will be permitted the same as of July 1, 2023.
Additionally, certain cannabis-related convictions that occurred between Jan. 1, 2000, and Oct. 1, 2015, will be automatically erased. Those seeking to erase cannabis-related convictions outside of that period will require petitioning.
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