Prohibits cannabis products, or packaging or labeling for a cannabis product, that are substantially similar to or likely to create confusion with a non-cannabis product.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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11606
IN ASSEMBLY
June 5, 2026
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gibbs) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to prohibiting copycat
cannabis products
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The cannabis law is amended by adding a new section 86-a to
2 read as follows:
3 § 86-a. Prohibition on copycat products. 1. No person, firm, associ-
4 ation or corporation shall within this state manufacture, compound,
5 brew, distill, produce, process, pack, transport, possess, sell, or
6 offer or expose for sale a cannabis product, or packaging or labeling
7 for a cannabis product, that is substantially similar to or likely to
8 create confusion with a non-cannabis product.
9 2. The board shall promulgate all rules or regulations necessary for
10 the implementation of this section.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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