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Connecticut’s Department of Consumer Protection commissioner was in damage control mode on Monday. He had to publicly apologize to cannabis businesses in the state after his agency made what was called a “retaliatory and unauthorized inspection” of a cannabis business in Portland last week.

Less than a month before the first sale of retail marijuana in Connecticut, the state’s top officials in charge of the legal cannabis market’s rollout have resigned.

Connecticut's six state-licensed medical marijuana dispensaries started selling the drug late last month. They're part of a new state program that…