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MA H118

MA H118
Relative to supporting sustainability in the cannabis industry


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Introduced
02/16/2023
In Committee
02/20/2024
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
12/31/2024

Introduced Session

193rd General Court

Bill Summary

Relative to supporting sustainability in the cannabis industry. Cannabis Policy.

AI Summary

This bill amends Chapter 94G of the General Laws to require the Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) to convene a sustainability working group and meet with representatives from the cannabis industry in Massachusetts. The working group will address various measures to increase sustainable practices and reduce the use of natural materials in the cannabis industry, such as: (i) developing a system for recollecting, sanitizing, and reusing returned packages for consumer use; (ii) creating a manual of best practices for the legal disposal of marijuana waste and the recollection of packages; and (iii) establishing a recollection and reuse program for radio frequency identification tags used for seed-to-sale tracking.

Committee Categories

Budget and Finance, Health and Social Services

Sponsors (1)

Last Action

No further action taken (on 12/31/2024)

Bill Topics

Banking, Finance, and Domestic Commerce
  • ‐ Other Commerce
Environment
  • ‐ Waste Disposal

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Document Type Source Location Created
State Bill Page https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H118 03/13/2023
BillText https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H118.pdf 03/13/2023
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