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Jason Rojas: “We required... to have just very white packaging, like…”

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 17:22

Have an excise tax, have a sales tax, have that 3% municipal tax to get us to around 20% so that we're more competitive with our neighbors. There's been a lot of complaints from the operators around packaging. Right. We required... to have just very white packaging, like couldn't have any colors on it, couldn't have any marketing on it. We began to loosen that up a little bit. But was that what was the reasoning behind that? Was that because you didn't want to be attractive to kids? (17:22–17:30)

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Asserts that initial regulations required plain packaging for cannabis products.

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