The day after the president of a Connecticut marijuana cultivator told lawmakers that testing-lab standards need improvement, officials from the state Department of Consumer Protection showed up at his business for a surprise inspection.
The compliance check was evidently retaliatory, and in an extraordinary public apology reported Friday by The Connecticut Mirror, the agency’s commissioner, Bryan Cafferelli, admitted that it “should not have happened.”
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The situation arose when Rino Ferrarese, the president of Portland-based licensed cultivator Affinity Grow, spoke in favor Wednesday of a proposed state law that would impose new rules on Connecticut’s two marijuana testing labs.
According to the Mirror, Ferrarese testified at a General Assembly hearing that the Connecticut cannabis industry is experiencing “inconsistent testing, inflated costs and regulatory inefficiencies,
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