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Jason Rojas: “We continue to see people going to Massachusetts... to…”

Featuring: Jason Rojas, Democratic | Connecticut House of Representatives, 9th Assembly District

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Rep. Jason Rojas talks housing and cannabis | Face More Facts with Mike & Mike

Published | Video Starts at 16:14

But that has the effect of adding costs to both the operators and obviously downstream the consumer. They're the ones who bear that cost. So We continue to see people going to Massachusetts... to purchase their cannabis. or New York, you know, because we're a small state and geographically, for everybody who lives on the border, if you can go across state line, which you shouldn't be doing to get a cheaper product, people are going to do that. (16:14–16:19)

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Asserts that people are crossing state lines to purchase cannabis due to cost differences.

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