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Legislative Council reads S323 draft to bar mail sales of unregistered cannabis; committee takes straw position
Summary
Legislative Council presented a draft of S323 adding sales restrictions that would bar mail/online shipment of unregistered hemp or cannabis except to licensed state labs, create criminal penalties up to five years and civil fines up to $5,000 per shipment; the committee held a nonbinding straw poll and deferred formal action pending a clean copy.
The Government Operations & Military Affairs committee on Thursday reviewed new draft language for S323 that would move sales restrictions into a new cannabis chapter and bar mail and online shipments of unregistered hemp or cannabis except to licensed cannabis laboratories in the state. Legislative Council staff read the draft aloud and members took a nonbinding straw poll rather than a formal vote.
Legislative Council staff said the bill adds a new section, identified in the draft as 7 BSA 834, defining “unregistered hemp” or “unregistered cannabis” as products required to be registered with the Cannabis Control Board that are not so registered. The draft explicitly forbids shipment of such unregistered products to anyone other than a licensed cannabis laboratory in the state.
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