By Mark Pazniokas, CT Mirror
House Speaker Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, pledged that the House will pass a bill legalizing recreational marijuana in a special session after failing to negotiate a limit to the debate that might have allowed passage before the annual session reaches its adjournment deadline of midnight Wednesday.
The special session will be called soon, most likely in next week or two a less aggressive time frame than he suggested Wednesday morning, when he still was trying to get House Minority Leader Vincent J.Candelora, R-North Branford, to accept a limit on debate on the 297-page bill finished Saturday night narrowly passed by the Senate early Tuesday.