Connecticut

While medical cannabis sales dropped slightly, adult-use sales are growing. New data on monthly cannabis sales in Connecticut shows that numbers have increased yet again. The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) said in a press release that between Aug. 1-31, the combined total of

James Whitcomb, a former CEO of Parallel, helms Frontier Risk Group. Frontier Risk Group raised $3.1 million in seed funding with the help of Casa Verde Capital, apparently on the wave of optimism generated by the marijuana rescheduling news this week. The Connecticut-based cannabis insurance firm

Connecticut Pioneers $50 Million Bond Initiative to Empower Social Equity Cannabis Businesses. Social equity cannabis businesses regularly contend with the burden of structural inequality, lack of intergenerational wealth, and funding, high taxation and real estate prices, and, stringent compliance

A cannabis dispensary near the Buckland Hills Mall has begun offering cannabis for recreational use. Curaleaf, located at 240 Buckland St., opened earlier this year for medical sales but began selling adult-use cannabis this week, roughly two miles from the existing Fine Fettle dispensary on Hale

A Florida-based company is looking for permission to build a 64,000-square-foot cannabis-growing center in the southern end of Bloomfield only blocks from the Hartford line. AYR Wellness operates dispensaries in six states, and wants to make its Connecticut debut with its own cultivation center at

Under state law the number of dispensaries a person can open in Connecticut is limited to one and in some cases two, but some of the largest cannabis companies in the country are planning top open as many as six retail stores. This has raised questions about the fairness of a legalization initiative

Adult-use cannabis sales increased in Connecticut for the sixth consecutive month in July, topping $13 million even as medical marijuana sales declined, according to a monthly update from the Department of Consumer Protection. At $13 million, commercial sales grew modestly in July, up from $12.54

Alocally grown cannabis company is expanding its reach as a multistate operator. Hartford-based medical and adult-use cannabis retailer and grower Fine Fettle, which currently operates in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has its sights set on another emerging market: Georgia. The four-year-old company

One of the state’s four active cannabis producers has new ownership following foreclosure proceedings, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The new owners of Theraplant is a company called NewCo, which is a subsidiary of East Hampton N.Y.-based DXR Holdco, according to

Derrick Gibbs and Carl Tirella Jr are friends and business partners that are now just days away from making West Hartford’s first recreational cannabis retailer a reality. Their store, Budr Cannabis, opens Monday, July 31. It is the first of five they intend to open in Connecticut. They say they

Police in several Connecticut neighbourhoods are cracking down on vape shops for selling marijuana and hallucinogens without a license. Norwalk police say 36-year-old Yazid Abdulmalek Mohammed was arrested at the Smoke House on Connecticut Avenue on Wednesday. He now faces multiple charges including

Connecticut smashes sales records as Cannabis industry flourishes: multi-state operators vie for hybrid licenses. Combined medical and adult-use cannabis sales in Connecticut hit another record high for the state in June, and multi-state operators are moving in to obtain hybrid licenses, including