NY marijuana regulators publish proposed rules for the state’s marketplace

Ahead of its big meeting tomorrow, New York’s Cannabis Control Board and the Office of Cannabis Management have released the much-anticipated draft regulations governing the state’s marijuana marketplace – in addition to recommending dozens of applicants for the Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) license, along with a slew of other regulatory resolutions.

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The proposed adult-use cannabis regulations clock in at 282 pages and cover municipal rulemaking, social and economic equity rules, general business requirements, prohibitions and more. If adopted, the public will have 60 days to comment on the proposed rules from the date they are published in the State Register.

Also, the board is expected tomorrow to approve 36 CAURD licenses. However, due to a recent court order, the board will not be issuing licenses for the five geographic regions of Brooklyn, Central New York, the Finger Lakes, mid-Hudson or Western New York.

Those granted a CAURD license will not be allowed to begin operations “until the completion of a secondary supplemental application to the satisfaction of the Office, including completing a notification to the appropriate municipality where the conditional adult-use retail dispensary will be located.”

That municipality notice was also included among the documents published Sunday.

In addition, revised packaging, labeling, advertising and marketing rules will be filed with the state for public comment; the CCB will vote to award three permits for testing, to adopt emergency cannabis lab regulations and to file revised cannabis lab rules for public comment; and the OCM is proposing that the board establish “emergency violations, hearing, and enforcement procedures,” which are laid out across 34 pages detailing inspections, enforcements, violations, corrective action plans, hearings, subpoenas and more.

The board is also expected to award another 16 conditional cultivator licenses licenses, which would bring the total number licensed to 277, and eight more conditional processor licenses, bringing that number to 33.

Medical operators Etain and NYCANNA will see their requests for changes of ownership considered tomorrow, and the board will also vote on a resolution to authorize its members to attend meetings by videoconference under “extraordinary circumstances,” as well.

The meeting will be live streamed here at 10 a.m.

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