In Jersey Curaleaf has already been lobbying against homegrow. Not that I needed any more reason to not give them my money but if I did that would do it.
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Adult New Yorkers will be allowed to home-grow three mature plants and three immature plants , with an upper limit of six mature plants and six immature plants maximum per household.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Final-deal-struck-to-legalize-marijuana-16058882.php
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Maine Growers Alliance: All we’re asking for is a fair shake
Changes in medical cannabis rules are needed, but a state proposal will drive up the cost without making patients safer.
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I stopped getting excited whenever governments step in to regulate, thinking they were going to make things fairer in prices, like gas price regulation here.
When you take away competition and create monopolies, prices always go up to increase tax revenue.
It always gets more complex and expensive for the same products they say they want to make sure are safer and more fairly priced without fail.
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good news for Virginia - now we need NY to take the same stupid delay out of their law as well:
House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn (D) said on Friday that the legislature-approved measure should be amended to make July 1 the effective date for legal marijuana possession. She also proposed three further revisions concerning resentencing, expungements and home cultivation.
Gov. Ralph Northam (D) on Wednesday signaled that he also wants to push up the effective date, saying, “I personally don’t think we should be arresting or penalizing somebody for something we’re getting ready to legalize.”
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What’s that smell?
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Here’s a summary of the main components of the 128-page New York marijuana legalization bill:
-Adults 21 and older would be able to possess and purchase marijuana products from licensed retailers, which are expected to launch sometime in 2022.
-Effective immediately, there would be no penalties for public possession of up to three ounces of cannabis or 24 grams of marijuana concentrates, and people could store up to five pounds of cannabis at home.
-Adults could also cultivate up to six plants for personal use, three of which could be mature. A maximum of 12 plants could be grown per household with more than one adult. Homegrow would not take effect until regulators set rules for it, and they would have a maximum of six months to do so for medical patients and must do so for adult-use consumers no later than 18 months after the first retail recreational sales begin.
-People with convictions for marijuana-related activity made legal under the legislation would have their records automatically expunged.
-Protections against discrimination in housing, educational access and parental rights would be instituted for people who consume cannabis or work in the marijuana industry.
-A system of licenses for commercial cultivators, processors, distributors, retailers, cooperatives and nurseries would be created, with a prohibition on vertical integration except for microbusinesses and existing medical cannabis operators.
-Social consumption sites and delivery services would be permitted.
-Individual jurisdictions would be allowed to opt out of allowing retailers or social consumption sites by the end of this year, but residents could seek to override such bans via a local referendum process.
-A new Office of Cannabis Management—an independent agency operating as part of the New York State Liquor Authority—would be responsible for regulating the recreational cannabis market as well as the existing medical marijuana and hemp programs and would be overseen by a five-member Cannabis Control Board. Three members would be appointed by the governor, and the Senate and Assembly would appoint one member each.
-The legislation sets a goal of having 50 percent of marijuana business licenses issued to social equity applicants, defined as people from “communities disproportionately impacted by the enforcement of cannabis prohibition” as well as minority- and women-owned businesses, disabled veterans and financially distressed farmers.
-Cannabis products would be subject to a state tax of nine percent, plus an additional four percent local tax that would be split between counties and cities/towns/villages, with 75 percent of the local earnings going to the municipalities and 25 percent to the counties. Marijuana distributors would also face a THC tax based on type of product, as follows: 0.5 cents per milligram for flower, 0.8 cents per milligram for concentrated cannabis and 3 cents per milligram for edibles.
-Tax revenue from marijuana sales would cover the costs of administering the program. After that, 40 percent of the remaining dollars would go to a community reinvestment fund, 40 percent would support the state’s public schools and 20 percent would fund drug treatment facilities and public education programs.
-Police could not use the odor of cannabis to justify searches.
-The State Department of Health would oversee a study of technologies for detecting cannabis-impaired driving, after which it could approve and certify the use of such a test. Additional funds for drug recognition experts also would be made available.
-Driving while impaired from marijuana would remain a misdemeanor despite early reports that lawmakers had settled on downgrading it to a violation.
-The state’s existing medical cannabis program would also be changed to expand the list of qualifying conditions and allow patients to smoke marijuana products. Patients could also obtain a 60-day, rather than 30-day, supply.
-Smokable hemp flower sales would be allowed.
-Current medical cannabis businesses could participate in the recreational market in exchange for licensing fees that will help to fund the social equity program.
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In general F Cuomo, but I’m okay with that development.
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we don’t actually have “legalization” or this man would have been prosecuted only for cultivating without license. we have what I call “D&M” or “decrim & monopoly”…
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That’s interesting, I find my heart rate and BP drop 60-90 minutes after edibles. In the evening I have recorded BP as low as 83/56 with a pulse rate of 51 beats a minute.
I started doing this as my doc wants to increase my BP meds and I told him I did not need to do it, because he was not taking my BP the right way, which up set him lol.
I am finding now over 3 days I deliberately dont take my BP meds, my BP only increases to between 130 and 135 over 85 to 95, I may disappoint him even more and tel him I am coming off the meds altogether lol.
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White House Press Secretary: Joe Biden’s Opposition to Legalizing Marijuana Hasn’t Changed
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yeah I know the feeling =) same here
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