The Best Bill Of The Year SB1466 Passes Committee
SB1466 Medical Marijuana; Adult-use Marijuana By December 31, 2023, any marijuana or marijuana product packaging labeled for sale is required to include a consumer scannable tetrahydrocannabinol quick response code or similar technology linking to a webpage that displays a list of specified information for the specific marijuana product, including required warnings as determined by the…
Read MoreBill To Add Marijuana Regulatory Board Barely Passes Committee
HB 2631: marijuana regulatory board; licensing qualifications An applicant for a new nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary registration certificate or a new marijuana establishment license is required to be an Arizona resident and must demonstrate residency with at least two documents from a specified list of documents that include the applicant’s name and address. Establishes a…
Read MoreHB 2446: Smart & Safe Fund; Distribution Passes Committee
HB 2446: Smart and Safe Fund; Distribution Modifies the distributions from the Smart and Safe Fund by adding Indian reservation police agencies, Indian reservation firefighting agencies, university police departments at universities under the jurisdiction of the Arizona Board of Regents, the Department of Public Safety, and joint powers authorities to the list of entities that…
Read MoreEveryone Cheers As Psilocybin Research Bill HB2486 Passes MAPS
HB 2486: Clinical Research; Psilocybin; Grants; Appropriation The Director of the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) is required to provide competitive research grants for whom the Department of Health Services from issuing a nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary registration certificate, a marijuana establishment license, a marijuana testing facility license, or an independent third party laboratory…
Read More(Held) SB1709 MARIJUANA TESTING; COMPLAINTS; DISCLOSURE
The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) is required to adopt rules for marijuana testing that define batch in a manner that appropriately balances the need for ensuring qualifying patients’ safety and precise potency information with the added cost that stricter requirements would impose on qualifying patients. ADHS is required to adopt and enforce rules…
Read More(Failed) SB1453 – HEMP-DERIVED IMPAIRING CANNABINOIDS; REGULATION
SB1453 – HEMP-DERIVED IMPAIRING CANNABINOIDS; REGULATION A person is prohibited from processing, manufacturing, distributing, or selling in Arizona “hemp-derived manufactured impairing cannabinoids” (defined) without a nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary registration certificate or a marijuana establishment license and without approval by the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) to convert cannabidiol to tetrahydrocannabinol. ADHS is required…
Read MoreLegislative Update 2023, Weeks 5, February 6th to 10th
We have 2 more cannabis bills this week for a grand total of 15. HB2631- MARIJUANA REGULATORY BOARD; LICENSING QUALIFICATION and HB2776- LANDLORD; TENANT’S MARIJUANA USE. HB2631is sponsored by Representative Kevin Payne. HB2776 has a long list of sponsors. Other things are just starting to heat up as there are 5 bills in committee next…
Read MoreRope Not Dope, SB1271 Hits Committee
The history, about rope, not dope, dates back to 2018. That is when SB1098 INDUSTRIAL HEMP; LICENSING bill was introduced by Senator Sonny Borrelli. The bipartisan bill had many co-sponsors from both parties. Senator Sonny Borrelli, the champion of hemp 6 years later, dropped another hemp bill. SB-1271 HEMP-DERIVED PRODUCTS; REGULATION, just hit the Senate…
Read MoreLegislative Update 2023, Weeks 4, January 30th to February 3rd
There are six new marijuana bills this week. We have two new bills that include autism to the list of qualifying conditions for medical marijuana. SB1349 seeks to include just autism. However, SB1466 hopes to add not only autism, but eliminates the hoops for PTSD patients as well. That is not all Senator Shope’s bill…
Read MoreLegislative Update 2023, Weeks 3, January 23rd to 27th
This week there are three new marijuana bills. Two of which open up dual licensing, both from Senator Gowan. SB1195 appears to give dual licenses to social equity winners that did not team up with “big marijuana” companies. However, SB1196 hopes to do the same thing, just bigger and with no qualifications. SB1196 gives medical…
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