CT retail cannabis sales set to begin Tuesday: ‘There’s going to be lines’
ConnecticutMarijuana Industry NewsRecreational Marijuana January 9, 2023 MJ Shareholders 0
Connecticut’s first recreational cannabis retail shops will open Tuesday morning – a long awaited milestone in the state’s effort to decriminalize the drug and create an equitable legal market.
State officials gave permission to nine existing medical cannabis dispensaries to also sell in the adult use market and seven of them will start legal sales at 10 a.m. on Jan. 10 – the soonest allowed. Other new retail cannabis shops aren’t expected to open until later this year.
Connecticut joins several other northeast states with recreational marijuana markets including Massachusetts and New Jersey, and more recently Rhode Island and New York. State officials targeted the end of 2022 to open the first legal pot shops in Connecticut but missed that deadline by 10 days.
No one is quite sure what demand will be like at Connecticut’s first legal pot shops – but many are expecting long lines and traffic in the initial days. The state has advised the nearly 50,000 patients registered in its medical program to shop prior to Tuesday morning.
“There’s going to be lines. And anyone that’s not thinking that is just, you’re dreaming. You’re fooling yourself,” said Vincent Bucchieri, general manager at Zen Leaf in Meriden, one of the first stores to start adult use sales.
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