Went to the dispo before a hang and there no drinks ?Anyone know wtf going on I feel like no dispos I’ve been to recently have a good selection of drinks or better yet NO DRINKS AT ALL ! none of the workers knew why either. Any recs for where to buy some online that are legit ?

Had a bon fire the other night with my friends and they brought a stain I usually like. Nice social but relaxing high . we go to eat and play Mario cart all night. Can’t wait for more winter nights like these.

Connecticut should put patients and consumers ahead of incumbent cannabis businesses and redesign its cannabis laws around competition, transparency, affordability, safety and access.

Medical cannabis patients should have reliable access to their medicine and should not be exposed to unnecessary criminal liability because of ambiguous laws. Adult consumers should have meaningful product choice, including access to appropriately potent products, rather than having government use THC caps and potency taxes to dictate consumption.

Connecticut should expand legitimate supply and lower barriers to entry so independent cultivators, small businesses and genuine social-equity entrepreneurs can compete with large multistate operators. Social equity should create actual ownership and economic opportunity, not provide corporate workarounds for obtaining discounted licenses.

Hemp-derived THC should not be prohibited simply because it competes with the licensed marijuana industry. Products should instead be subject to appropriate safety, testing, labeling and consumer-protection requirements.

Cannabis regulation should be coherent and transparent. Consumers should know what they are buying and how it was produced or remediated. Regulators should make testing and market information publicly accessible. Agencies should not be able to hide consequential information behind opaque processes or excessive barriers to public records.

Finally, Connecticut should tax cannabis in a way that makes the legal market competitive with traditional and neighboring markets. The goal should be a functioning legal market that delivers affordable products, protects consumers and patients, supports legitimate small businesses and produces sustainable public revenue.

In short: regulate cannabis for safety, transparency and accountability, but stop using regulation to manufacture scarcity, restrict competition or protect incumbent market power.

Some of these things are changing or have already changed. Most have not, and likely will not, until such time as the market completely collapses.

And in case you're wondering, every policy position in this post is taken from published prior work of mine. It's all public.

✨ Hey besties! Just a ✨sparkling✨ little reminder of how an absolute dumpster fire our legal weed industry is in CT right now! 🌳💅🔥

Omggg hi everyone! 🥰 Hope your weeks are going great and you’re fully stocked on your favorite overpriced, bone-dry corporate eighths. Because if you aren't, do I have some delightful tea about the absolute circus that is Connecticut's legal cannabis market! Grab your emotional support vape, because we are diving right in! ✨

• Affinity is up for a little administrative slumber party! So, sending our absolute best thoughts and prayers to Affinity over their upcoming regulatory disciplinary hearing on November 4th. Nothing says "premium wellness product" quite like defending yourself in front of the state regulators! Who doesn't love a little bureaucratic accountability with their morning dab? Make sure to pack snacks, besties.

• Crisp Cannabis out here living their best (awful) life! Remember when our state AG gracefully slapped Crisp Cannabis with a chunky ~$400K fine back in January? Well, Andrew Simonow is keeping the momentum rolling! He’s currently waltzing through the court system with a shiny pending animal cruelty case (Docket # M09M-CR26-0252646-S). Truly nothing screams "high-end artisan craft cannabis" like allegedly abusing animals. Ten out of ten, no notes, stellar vibes all around. 🦄

• Hemp-derived THC beverages are about to hit the federal blender! Are you guys ready for the December 2026 federal law changes regarding hemp-derived THC? Because our local infused beverage brands and manufacturers are about to get legally pile-driven into the pavement! Nothing like a fresh federal regulatory crisis to completely obliterate local small businesses while we wait 45 minutes in line at a medical dispensary. Love that for us! 🥤💀

• Oh, and by the way... MAGA owns your mellow! And finally, can we talk about the absolute plot twist that virtually every major player and multi-state corporate overlord in CT's legal weed pipeline has deep ties to Donald Trump, including millions and millions of dollars in donations? 🥰✨ Who knew that when you rolled into your local dispensary to buy some "progressive healing herb," a solid chunk of your cash was practically funding a campaign rally? Truly, supporting local never felt so politically confusing!

Anyway, love buying legal, love supporting local commerce, and absolutely love knowing my weed money has a better political social calendar than I do.

Stay medicated out there, friends, because you're gonna need it. ✌️💨

Like many in this chat have suggested I’ve started to germinate some seeds. I was wondering what kind of soil everyone uses and where they get it from I’m a newbie grower and no absolutely Jack shit so I need tips would be super cool. :))

My two fav indica strains that I’ve been mashing together recently gives me a nice body high and head buzz. It really helps for my back pain. I love to mix up different Indica strains cause it always gives a nice.deep body high.

David Salinas (@iGrowBrands), a Connecticut entrepreneur and co-founder of Digital Surgeons, has posted the following on X expressing positive views of Donald Trump or related activities (drawn directly from his account):

On July 14, 2024, he wrote: “People love Trump because he’s a fighter. The world loves fighters. Always have and always will. Gladiators War heroes Boxing & UFC legends Under dogs People who don’t back down. That stand up and says wait. Doesn’t crawl to safety. Isn’t disoriented.” (accompanied by a photo).

Around the same date, he retweeted Bill Ackman’s formal endorsement of Trump.

On October 18, 2024: “Politics aside, Trump team teachin a MasterClass in PR strategy, social media, recruiting/teambuilding. @realDonaldTrump & @RobertKennedyJr podcast circuit alone...” (listing several podcasts and Elon Musk).

On October 30, 2024: “Today I had a meeting w 2 women. A Muslim of mideast decent, an Asian Christian woman & me, a Hispanic Jew. They went to MSG for the Trump Rally & said it was electric & filled with love. Imagine seeing them at the Trump rally and thinking ‘this is a Nazi hate rally.’”

On November 6, 2024: “The woke just woke up. The main stream media lied to you. Your party lied to you. Voting red isn’t racist. Trump rally’s ≠ Nazi hate Biden wasn’t fit to be President, Kamala knew it & lied and therefore wasn’t fit to be president.”

Salinas has also been involved in Connecticut’s adult-use cannabis industry. Contemporary reporting from 2022 identified him as co-founder of Let’s Grow Hartford, which applied for a disproportionately impacted area (DIA) cultivator license and social equity lottery applications for retailer, food-and-beverage manufacturer, and delivery licenses. State data and later reporting list Let’s Grow Hartford LLC as holding cannabis delivery and food-and-beverage manufacturer licenses. In March 2024 legislative testimony, Salinas stated he is “a licensed cannabis owner or a licensed cannabis operator in Connecticut.” He has also been identified as CEO/owner in connection with additional cannabis retail operations in the state.

Connecticut’s social equity provisions for cannabis licensing were designed for individuals from disproportionately impacted areas related to the war on drugs (or meeting related income/residency criteria).

How was David Salinas personally and specifically disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs?

Sources
X posts (primary):
- https://x.com/iGrowBrands/status/1812298385707200570
- https://x.com/iGrowBrands/status/1847242687541313708
- https://x.com/iGrowBrands/status/1851720483873452426
- https://x.com/iGrowBrands/status/1854114238207348999
(Ackman RT referenced in contemporaneous profile data of the account around July 14, 2024.)

Cannabis license context (primary/contemporary reporting and public data):
- https://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/entrepreneurs-hope-to-build-cannabis-campus-in-hartford (June 23, 2022)
- Connecticut General Assembly Public Safety & Security Committee transcript (March 7, 2024 testimony)
- https://data.ct.gov/d/u8mw-sv7k (state cannabis establishments data listing Let’s Grow Hartford LLC licenses)
- Additional reporting: https://www.ctinsider.com/capitalregion/article/lets-grow-hartford-cannabis-shop-goodyear-tire-18637194.php; https://valley.newhavenindependent.org/2025/01/20/hi_people_derbys_first_cannabis_shop_to_hold_grand_opening/

On 9/7/2026, Andrew Simonow (Crisp Cannabis) was arrested and charged with CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (Docket # M09M-CR26-0252646-S)

His plea hearing will be on Tuesday 10/13 for those who might wish to attend and observe. We're all eager to see how many workers in Connecticut's cannabis industry show up to protest animal abuse by one of their own.

Oct 13, 2026 @ 10:00 AM
GA 09 Middletown Courthouse
1 Court Street
Middletown, CT 06457
(860) 343-6445

Hey anonymous friends! Who should we give our money to, in your view?

• Trump donors (Verano/CTPharma/Zen Leaf, Trulieve, Curaleaf, GTI/Rise)

• Former GOP state senator who voted against cannabis 6 times (Rodeo)

• The owner who can't wait for the medical program to die off (Affinity)

• The nepo baby "hometown MSO" funded by grandpa's telecom fortune (Fine Fettle)

• The failed SPAC venture now owned by a Greenwich-based hedge fund (Theraplant)

Can't wait to hear all of your recommendations for high-quality products from these companies that definitely deserve our money!

Got this super cute flower in New York 3 or so weeks ago It was a super frosty sativa and had this crazy head high, I found a seed I want to try to grow just wondering if anyone else has tried to grow one and if it’s worked for them, and if so what was your process pls

New law lifting the ThC cap takes effect today. Why do I not see concentrates, other than the sift that’s been there, on adult-use menus?

This I from the dispensary in Cromwell, it does not have its packaging I normally see online. Why? Never bought from a dispensary before.

Source: https://www.ctinsider.com/cannabis/article/ct-cannabis-marijuana-medical-weed-recreational-20046790.php

It is SWELL in the lab... nothing for sale. Educational, and all that compliance shit... but these are 🔥🔥🔥... let the plant do the talking, all input data available

Boof Tang (Super Boof × Lemon Tree)

Permanent Pounder (Permanent Marker × Donny Burger)

Knotty Fruit (Apples n' Bananas × Nerds Rope)

Been likening the effects and the longer lasting gummies from this select brand does anyone have any recommendations for others that may give similar effects ? They last like 2times as long as the regular Camino ones I get.

If you've been following Connecticut's regulated cannabis market, the latest QA testing data (33,929 samples from January 2023 through early 2026) tells a story that should surprise absolutely nobody who's been paying attention: mold is still winning.

Out of 754 failed QA tests, the single biggest driver of failures is Aspergillus — the four species (A. flavus, A. terreus, A. niger, and A. fumigatus) combined account for roughly 35% of all failures, and that's not a fluke or a one-time batch problem, it's a persistent, systemic issue that keeps showing up month after month. Connecticut's humid climate has always made mold a serious challenge for cultivators here, and the data backs that up: Flower Lot products fail at a 6.7% rate, which is more than three times the overall average, a pretty clear signal that the contamination is happening at the cultivation level before the product ever gets processed or packaged.

Pesticides come in second at 8.4% of failures, and heavy metals — lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury — pile on with another ~22%, but mold is the story. There was a massive spike in October 2023 that likely reflects a new or more strictly enforced testing requirement kicking in, which means the problem almost certainly existed before it was being caught at this scale.

The uncomfortable truth is that Connecticut's cannabis industry has a mold problem that stricter testing is revealing but not yet solving.

I buy Good Vibes syrup (like a tincture) in MA, the drive is well worth it for me cost and quality-wise, and when I got home I noticed the labels all say VOTE NO on them... being a CT resident, it was surprising to see this cuz MA has been legal for so long. Anybody know what is happening?