Those in power have the power….
CT Post reports
As a Republican state senator representing Lyme and Old Lyme, Art Linares voted against cannabis legalization and vocalized his opposition on the Senate floor.
Now he’s helping to grow it.
Linares is on record calling cannabis a “gateway drug,” and said it contributed to the ongoing opioid crisis. He said young people were becoming “addicted to relieving pain with this substance.”
During a senate session in 2016, Linares said the state’s decision to legalize cannabis for medical purposes “has really desensitized our youth.”
“When they think about marijuana, they don’t think about it as something that can be harmful to their brain development, threatening to their future, and that’s a problem,” Linares said in 2016. “Because science will tell us that it can harm their ability to do well in school, their ability to perform in athletics, their ability to be a good friend, to be a good son, daughter to their family.”
Now Linares, owner of Linares Land Capital LLC and married to Stamford Democratic Mayor Caroline Simmons, is helping to fund a cannabis cultivation operation that has been granted a license by the state’s Social Equity Council.
You know the plot from this point on.. but read on if you can bear it
