Latest Cannabis News: June 29, 2021
Latest Cannabis News: June 29, 2021
Stay up to date with the latest legalization and cannabis news with the CB Advisors. Every week, we will release a snippet of what’s happening with each state in the cannabis industry. Did you miss last week? No worries – click here for last week’s cannabis news.
Medical
Connecticut: Governor Ned Lamont signed Senate Bill 1201 last Tuesday into legislation that legalizes and safely regulates the adult-use of cannabis in Connecticut. The legislation contains comprehensive reforms that address many areas, including equity, criminal justice, public health, and public safety.
Delaware: An effort to legalize marijuana in Delaware is dead for the year due to disagreements among lawmakers over social equity funding. The House sponsor, Rep. Edward Osienski (D), says he was caught off guard after being informed that his bill’s inclusion of a new fund to promote participation in the industry by communities most impacted by prohibition meant it would require 75 percent of legislators in the chamber to approve it.
Louisiana: The governor of Louisiana on Tuesday signed a bill to let patients in the state’s medical cannabis program legally smoke whole-plant marijuana flower. The legislation marks a notable expansion of the state’s limited medical marijuana program. As it stands, patients are able to vaporize cannabis preparations via a “metered-dose inhaler,” but they cannot access whole-plant flower and smoking is not allowed.
Missouri: A federal judge in Jefferson City barred Missouri cannabis regulators from enforcing state residency requirements for medical marijuana license majority ownership. If not appealed to a higher court, the preliminary injunction ordered last Monday could result in a massive boost to Missouri’s legal cannabis industry, as one of the biggest barriers to cultivation operations has been the availability of in-state originating capital.
Ohio: Ohio’s Medical Marijuana Control Program (MMCP) is attempting to regulate Delta-8 THC in medical marijuana products produced and sold in the state.The five requirements are: Telling MMCP Delta-8 THC will be used and providing how it complies with state code; Counting Delta-8 THC towards a product’s THC limit; Putting “Delta-8 THC” on packaging and labeling; Maintaining records of Delta-8 THC supply chain; Including Delta-8 THC in testing by cultivators, processors, and testing labs
Pennsylvania: A set of regulations put in place during the pandemic that eased medical marijuana dispensaries operations in Pennsylvania was made into a law by the state legislature Friday. These regulations allowed these dispensaries to serve patients curbside and dispense up to three months’ worth of marijuana to them at a time, the Associated Press reported. Governor Tom Wolf’s office said he was in support of the bill and said he would sign it. The state Department of Health issued a notice last March that temporarily eased provisions for medical marijuana that were originally set to expire on Sept. 30 or sooner. Before the pandemic, dispensaries could only serve one month’s worth of the drug at a time.
Rhode Island: The Rhode Island Senate on Tuesday approved a bill to legalize marijuana. The legislation, which cleared the chamber’s Judiciary Committee last week, passed in a 29-9 vote. A Cannabis Control Commission would be established to regulate the market and issue business licenses. Marijuana would be subject to the state’s seven percent sales tax, in addition to a 10 percent special tax and a three percent local tax for jurisdictions that allow cannabis firms to operate in their area. Under a substitute amendment approved by the Judiciary Committee last week, the bill stipulates that there “shall be no new cannabis cultivators’ licenses issued prior to July 1, 2023.” Regulators would also be tasked with reviewing data annually to “determine the maximum number of licenses that shall be issued to meet the production demands.”
Source: https://www.marijuanamoment.net/rhode-island-senate-approves-marijuana-legalization-bill/
Recreational
Colorado: Marijuana dispensaries will soon have to restrict daily purchases of concentrates and ensure their products explicitly state serving sizes. Gov. Jared Polis signed HB21-1317 into law Thursday, instituting the most sweeping piece of regulatory legislation for the marijuana industry since Colorado first legalized recreational use in 2012. The purchase limits for concentrates like wax and shatter will now be 8 grams per patient 21 and over (2 grams for those 18-20 years old, with some exceptions), a fifth of what they used to be. Dispensaries also will be required to use a real-time state database to make sure people don’t go to another dispensary and purchase more than the daily concentrate limit. The new limits and some other provisions of the law will take effect Jan. 1, 2022. Additional regulations will make it harder for people ages 18-20 to get medical marijuana cards, and the Colorado School of Public Health is charged with analyzing research related to high-potency THC marijuana and concentrates and creating an educational campaign.
Source: https://www.denverpost.com/2021/06/24/colorado-marijuana-pot-thc-restrictions-new-law/
Oregon: A bill that would allow cities and counties to increase their local cannabis sales tax rate from 3% to as high as 10% continued to move rapidly in the Oregon Legislature on Wednesday. Two days after winning committee approval, Senate Bill 864 sailed through the Senate in rare bipartisan fashion for a tax-related measure, favored by Republicans 8-3 and Democrats 14-3. With the Legislature required to finish its business no later than Sunday, the bill still needs to pass the House to make it to Gov. Kate Brown’s desk. The city of Ontario first sought the bill. Officials there say they need more revenue to deal with the impact of thousands of Idahoans streaming across the state line every day to buy legal pot in their city of 11,000.
Source: https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2021/06/24/oregon-house-passes-cannabis-tax.html
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