Bill > HB1815

Introduced Session

Marijuana; legalization of cultivation, manufacture, sale, possession, and testing; penalties. Establishes a regulatory scheme for the regulation of marijuana cultivation facilities, marijuana manufacturing facilities, marijuana testing facilities, and retail marijuana stores by the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The bill also grants localities the authority to enact ordinances establishing additional licensing requirements for marijuana establishments located within such locality and allows the home cultivation of marijuana for personal use under certain circumstances. The bill imposes a tax on retail marijuana and retail marijuana products sold by a retail marijuana store at a rate of 9.7 percent (for a total sales tax of 15 percent) and provides that 67 percent of the revenues collected from the tax be deposited into the general fund and 33 percent of the revenues be deposited into a "Retail Marijuana Education Support Fund" to be used solely for purposes of public education. Finally, the bill establishes several new criminal penalties related to marijuana, as well as modifies some existing criminal penalties.

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Kelly Convirs-Fowler (D)*,  Stephen Heretick (D)*,  Dawn Adams (D),  Lee Carter (D),  Joshua Cole (D),  Nancy Guy (D),  Patrick Hope (D),  Chris Hurst (D),  Kaye Kory (D),  Mark Levine (D),  Alfonso Lopez (D),  Kenneth Plum (D),  David Reid (D),  Ibraheem Samirah (D),  Marcus Simon (D),  Shelly Simonds (D),  Suhas Subramanyam (D), 

Incorporated by General Laws (on 01/30/2021)

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