Massachusetts AG Approves Ballot Petition to End $1.6B Adult-Use Cannabis Market | How to order Skittles Moonrock online

said on Sept. 3. “My office reviews each petition according to the strict criteria outlined in Article 48 of our state constitution. Our personal opinions and any constitutional considerations outside of Article 48 cannot weigh into our decision-making about certification of a petition.”

While Cunningham aims to eradicate Massachusetts’ taxed and regulated adult-use market, “Version A” of her certified petition would also subject the state’s medical cannabis market to new potency limitations, including a 30% THC cap on flower and a 60% THC limit on concentrates. In addition, it would prohibit concentrated forms of medical cannabis that fail to provide a metered delivery serving of 5 milligrams of THC with no more than 20 metered doses (100 milligrams) per package.

Meanwhile, “Version B” of the petition does not include these potency and dosage requirements. Both versions continue the state’s medical cannabis program and are otherwise identical.

Also under the proposal, possessing up to 1 ounce of cannabis or 5 grams of concentrate would be decriminalized for those 21 and older, as would gifting these amounts between adults. Possessing between 1 ounce and 2 ounces of cannabis would subject individuals to a civil penalty of $100 and product forfeiture, while those younger than 21 would also have to complete a drug awareness program and community service.

The proposal would provide certain protections for those who possess less than 2 ounces of cannabis, such as access to student financial aid, public housing or financial assistance, such as unemployment benefits, the right to operate a motor vehicle, or to serve as a foster or adoptive parent. Cannabis use also would not disqualify a person from a needed medical procedure.

Primarily, the petition would drive adult-use cannabis consumers out of the licensed, tested and taxed marketplace.

In the absence of adult-use commercial operators, 91% of Massachusetts’ regulated cannabis market would cease to exist, according to an exclusive medical report published last month by Cannabis Business Times.

“The proposed law would allow currently licensed adult recreational marijuana businesses to apply on an expedited basis to become a licensed medical marijuana dispensary and to sell their remaining inventory of adult recreational marijuana to medical marijuana dispensaries,” according to an official summary of the petition. “The proposed law would retain the Cannabis Control Commission but modify its authority so it would regulate only the medical marijuana market.”

If passed by voters, the proposed law would become effective on Jan. 1, 2028.