“Just as the state has expressed an interest in working with surrounding states regarding cannabis legalization, it would be mutually beneficial for the state and interested tribes to create a cohesive regulatory structure,” the tribe said in testimony to the legislature’s Judiciary Committee. The Mashantucket Pequots asked state lawmakers as early as February to consider including in cannabis legislation authorization for the state and tribes to “enter into compacts concerning the regulation, production and sale of cannabis by Indian tribes in Connecticut.”
