South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) final week signed three cannabis-related payments into legislation, KELO experiences. This session Noem has signed a complete of eight cannabis-related payments that have been accepted by lawmakers, who rejected eight others.
Final Thursday, Noem signed HB 1053 which bans girls who’re pregnant or breastfeeding from acquiring a medical hashish certification; HB 1154 which creates new misdemeanor expenses for medical hashish practitioners who break a wide range of new guidelines included within the invoice; whereas SB 1 provides extra qualifying circumstances to the state’s medical hashish program.
Underneath HB 1154, medical hashish practitioners can be charged with a misdemeanor for guiding sufferers to particular dispensaries or caregivers in change for cost; promoting in a dispensary; issuing medical hashish certifications whereas having a monetary stake in a hashish enterprise; providing reductions, offers, or different monetary incentives for making an appointment with them; conducting medical assessments in a spot licensed to promote alcohol; and charging sufferers completely different charges based mostly on the length of their certification.
SB 1 provides AIDS and HIV, ALS, a number of sclerosis, most cancers or its therapy, if the therapy is related to extreme or continual ache, nausea or extreme vomiting, or cachexia or extreme losing syndrome, Crohn’s illness, epilepsy and seizures, and post-traumatic stress dysfunction to the state’s medical hashish qualifying listing. The measure additionally moved the duty of contemplating the addition or elimination of medical circumstances out of the purview of the Division of Well being and positioned it as a substitute with the legislature.
Noem this session has additionally signed HB 1132 which adjusts the duties of the Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee (MMOC), permitting the committee to make suggestions concerning the medical and medical facets of the medical hashish program; HB 1150 which requires a practitioner to certify whether or not they have beforehand issued a affected person certification for the usage of medical hashish and eliminates a affected person’s charge to the state if they’re re-applying for a card for the second time inside the span of a yr; SB 27 which amends the definition of a medical hashish practitioner, and states that hemp derived THC should come both from industrial hemp, or be in a product accepted by the federal Meals and Drug Administration; SB 134 which revises the make-up of the MMOC; and SB 198 which permits medical hashish dispensaries to take care of sure cardholder information.
Noem additionally vetoed a measure that might have elevated the allowable THC ranges in unprocessed hemp from 0.3% to five%.
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