The Consumer Protection Department took hours of public testimony Monday on its draft efforts to regulate marijuana in a manner that is comparable to its oversight of traditional pharmaceuticals in Connecticut, CT News Junkie reported.
The medicinal marijuana law that the state adopted last year is designed to allow people with certain debilitating illnesses to access cannabis with a doctor’s recommendation to be distributed through a licensed pharmacist.
Within the first hour of public testimony, it was evident that people on both sides of the issue consider marijuana to be in some ways distinctive from other types of medication.
The legislation, considered among the most restrictive of its kind, left the task of regulating the the new medical marijuana system up to the Consumer Protection Department, which recently released 76 pages of draft regulations.
On Monday, people seeking to comment on the regulations packed a hearing room and overflow room in the department’s Hartford headquarters.
Click here to read the full report from CT News Junkie’s Hugh McQuaid.
