The Omnibus Marijuana Bill Moves Forward

The Bicameral Interim Study group led by Jon Echols & Greg McCortney, will meet this Wednesday to approve a set of recommendations to the full legislative body. It will serve as the basis for fundamental statutes to fill in where the temporary emergency rules have served. those temporary rules are set to expire by the end of the summer, but this proposal will supercede the rules immediately upon being signed into law.

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 ​The Proposed new Omnibus Medical Marijuana Bill is now published. It will be presented as a "Committee Substitute" of an existing 'shell bill'.

• It creates a few statutory changes and adds clarity to a number of matters, including product testing standards (food safety protocols).
• It fails to address the tax issue. Voters believed it established a 7% sales tax on the medicine, but the Tax Commission imposed a double tax and more than doubled the assessment.
• It adds occupational licensing requirements ($50)
• It adds educational certification for training & research.
• It adds transportation licensing.
• It converts most of the existing agency  'emergency rules' to permanent statutes.
• It removes the OBNDD from oversight authority.
• It establishes clarity of patient rights & protections.
• It's requesting emergency implementation upon passage into law.

  We're waiting to hear which committee will receive this assignment, and when they will take action.


Omnibus Medical Marijuana Bill