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Assembly Bill A977

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Limits the potency of cannabis products

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2025-A977 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Cannabis Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §125, Cannabis L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A4890

2025-A977 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits the potency of cannabis flower to 15 percent THC in flowers and 25 percent THC in other cannabis or hemp products.

2025-A977 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    977
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   Section  1. Section 125 of the cannabis law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 13 to read as follows:
   13. (A) NO PERSON SHALL CULTIVATE, PROCESS,  DISTRIBUTE  FOR  SALE  OR
 SELL AT WHOLESALE OR RETAIL OR DELIVER TO CONSUMERS:
   (I) ANY CANNABIS FLOWER WHICH HAS A CONCENTRATION OF MORE THAN FIFTEEN
 PERCENT DELTA-9 TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL; OR
   (II)  ANY  CANNABIS, CANNABIS PRODUCT, MEDICAL CANNABIS OR CANNABINOID
 HEMP OR HEMP EXTRACT PRODUCT WHICH HAS  A  CONCENTRATION  OF  MORE  THAN
 TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT DELTA-9 TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL.
   (B)  ANY PERSON WHO KNOWINGLY VIOLATES THIS SUBDIVISION IS GUILTY OF A
 CLASS B MISDEMEANOR.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03102-01-5

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Brianna__Nichols
1 year ago

NO NO NO NO NO! How about you spend your time limiting the wealthy dodging taxes, or how much insurance companies can charge us for sub-par service instead of spending your time ruining cannabis for us??? How about that?? I AM SO TIRED.

Ian_Seldin
11 months ago

THC limitations is not effective cannabis legislation. Limiting the THCA levels of raw cannabis flower, as well as THC levels of other cannabis derivatives, will cause both State revenue loss, and a rise in crime. This is because, if the law is enacted, users in New York, dissatisfied with the overall effects that 15% THC(A) provides, will seek alternatives, either from neighboring states with recreational marijuana laws which don't set limits, or from illegal sources in New York, promising higher THC(A) leveled cannabis. This particular piece of legal cannabis proposed legislation should cost the State money, in declined tax revenue and added law enforcement appropriations. It is NOT compliant with traditional American political conservatism, from a neo-liberal point of view. Under a neo-liberal lense, government ought not deprive the public of what it desires, so long as no actual (not spiritual or emotional) harm can be directly (not inferentially) inflicted on others. Neo-liberal, present-day American political conservatives would not limit THC(A) content, just as they would not limit the percentages of alcohol in spirits. By analogy, to limit THC(A) content is akin to legislating that only 3.2 beer can be sold in New York. This legislation appears to seek appeasement of a very small minority of persons who fancy themselves as "social conservative." They aren't. They are prohibitionists. But unlike Prohibition of the 1920s, police cannot discern THC(A) levels by sight, feel, or smell. The limitation cannot be enforced. Appeasement to a small minority is never good governance.

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