The state legislature’s Regulations Review Committee voted Tuesday to approve regulations on the state’s impending medical marijuana industry, officials said.
The regulations, which lay out how the plant can be grown, sold and bought, were drafted by the Department of Consumer Protection over the past 15 months. They will be posted with the Secretary of State’s office within a week, DCP said.
DCP Commissioner William Rubenstein said in a statement that his department will begin the process of selecting who will receive cultivation and dispensary licenses. DCP will issue a minimum of three cultivation licenses, and said yesterday it anticipates awarding three to five dispensary licenses, based on the 850 patients registered for the program so far.
In the next few weeks, DCP said it will post a request for applications on its website for license seekers.
“It is our hope to be able to make our selections for both producer and dispensary facility licenses by around the first of the year,” Rubenstein said.
Connecticut approved only 11 medical conditions that would allow a patient to use medical marijuana, which is lower than in some other states. With the regulations about to take effect, DCP said a board of physicians will hear petitions to add conditions to that list.
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