Sales-to-date: The state has tallied more than $160 million in medical cannabis sales from late October 2020, when dispensaries first opened, through early November 2021.
● New licenses: Adds a minimum of 144 new small businesses to the existing 387 licensed and certified cannabis businesses in the state.
● Statewide access: To ensure statewide access, 18 of these new businesses will be added in each of the state’s eight congressional districts over time. At least six of those new businesses in each district must operate as dispensaries.
● New category: The remainder will be designated as wholesale facilities, a new category that allows operators to both cultivate the plant and manufacture cannabis products such as edibles, vape cartridges, topicals, and concentrates.
● Eligibility: This new group of business license holders would have to meet at least one of the following requirements;
– Have a net worth of less than $250,000 and income below 250% of the federal poverty level for at least 3 of the previous 10 years;
– Have a valid service-connected disability card issued by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs;
– Have been arrested, prosecuted, or convicted of a non-violent marijuana offense, or be the parent, guardian, or spouse of such a person;
– Live in a ZIP code or Census tract with high poverty, unemployment, marijuana imprisonment rates;
– Graduated from an unaccredited school district, or lives in a ZIP code with such a district for at least three of the past five years.
● Reduce illicit market: Existing license holders would have the opportunity to convert their medical-only facilities to businesses serving both medical patients and adult consumers, which will immediately reduce sales on the illicit market.
● Nurses: Adds nurse-practitioners to the category of healthcare professionals who can issue medical cannabis recommendations to patients.
● Expungement limits: Violent offenders and those whose offenses involved distribution to a minor or operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of marijuana would be ineligible for expungement. Those currently incarcerated for nonviolent marijuana-offenses can petition a judge for release.
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