Bill Title: Enacts the "marihuana regulation and taxation act"; relates to the description of cannabis, and the growing of and use of cannabis by persons twenty-one years of age or older; makes technical changes regarding the definition of cannabis; relates to removing certain references to marijuana relating to forfeiture actions; relates to the qualification of certain offenses involving cannabis and exempts certain persons from prosecution for the use, consumption, display, production or distribution of cannabis; relates to the definition of smoking; provides for the licensure of persons authorized to produce, process and sell marihuana; levies an excise tax on certain sales of cannabis; repeals certain provisions of the penal law relating to the criminal sale of cannabis and provisions of the general business law relating to drug paraphernalia; creates the New York state cannabis revenue fund, the New York state drug treatment and public education fund and the New York state community grants reinvestment fund.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 50-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-11 - print number 1617c
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Bill Drafts
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| Amended | 2019-01-16 | HTML/Text | Link | View |
| Amended | 2019-01-16 | HTML/Text | Link | View |
| Amended | 2019-01-16 | HTML/Text | Link | View |
| Introduced | 2019-01-16 | HTML/Text | Link | View |
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