STATE OF NEW YORK
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4890
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 24, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. STECK, K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to limiting the potency of
cannabis products
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 125 of the cannabis law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 13 to read as follows:
3 13. (a) No person shall cultivate, process, distribute for sale or
4 sell at wholesale or retail or deliver to consumers:
5 (i) any cannabis flower which has a concentration of more than fifteen
6 percent delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol; or
7 (ii) any cannabis, cannabis product, medical cannabis or cannabinoid
8 hemp or hemp extract product which has a concentration of more than
9 twenty-five percent delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol.
10 (b) Any person who knowingly violates this subdivision is guilty of a
11 class B misdemeanor.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09017-01-3
