COSPNSR | Gottfried, Lupardo, Solages, Hunter, Hyndman, Weprin, Pichardo, Rosenthal L, Dinowitz, Jean-Pierre,
Abinanti, Richardson, Hevesi, Walker, Vanel, Niou, Bichotte Hermelyn, Cahill, Epstein, Quart,
Reyes, Dickens, Frontus, Cruz, Darling, Rodriguez, Fernandez, Bronson, De La Rosa, Fall, Carroll,
Ramos, Benedetto, Simon, Kim, Aubry, Kelles, Burdick, Anderson, Forrest, Burgos, Gonzalez-Rojas,
Gallagher, Clark, Lunsford, Mamdani, Jackson |
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. |