§ 21a-422e — Program re collection of public health information on cannabis. Report.

(a) There is established, within the Department of Public Health, a program to collect and abstract timely public health information on cannabis associated illness and adverse events, nonfatal and fatal injuries and cannabis use poisoning data, from state and national data sources. Such program shall include, but need not be limited to, the following: (1) Serving as a data coordinator, analysis and reporting source of cannabis data and statistics that include, but are not limited to, illness, adverse events, injury, pregnancy outcomes, childhood poisoning, adult and youth use, cannabis-related emergency room visits and urgent care episodic mental health visits; (2) performing epidemiologic analysis on demographic, health and mortality data to identify risk factors and changes in trends; (3) working with the Departments of Consumer Protection and Mental Health and Addiction Services and any other entity that the Commissioner of Public Health deems necessary to disseminate public health alerts; and (4) sharing state-wide data to inform policy makers and citizens on the impact of cannabis legalization by posting public health prevention information and cannabis use associated morbidity and mortality statistics to the Department of Public Health's Internet web site. (b) The Department of Public Health shall, not later than April 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, report in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a , to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly with cognizance relating to public health, human services, and appropriations and the budgets of state agencies about the public health information on cannabis collected by the department under subsection (a) of this section.

Legislative History

(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-1, S. 146.) History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-1 effective January 1, 2022.