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Senate Bill S7387

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes retail dispensary licensees, microbusiness licensees and nursery licensees to sell up to three immature cannabis plants per person for personal cultivation

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2025-S7387 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7998
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Cannabis Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3, 72, 73 & 75, Cannabis L

2025-S7387 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes retail dispensary licensees, microbusiness licensees and nursery licensees to sell up to three immature cannabis plants per person for personal cultivation; defines immature cannabis plant; directs the cannabis control board to promulgate rules and regulations relating to the sale of immature cannabis plants.

2025-S7387 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7387 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7387
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to the  sale  of  immature
   cannabis plants for personal cultivation

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 3 of the cannabis law is amended by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 28-a to read as follows:
   28-A.  "IMMATURE CANNABIS PLANT" MEANS A NON-FLOWERING FEMALE CANNABIS
 PLANT OR A CANNABIS PLANT WHICH DOES NOT HAVE BUDS THAT MAY BE  OBSERVED
 BY VISUAL EXAMINATION.
   §  2.  Subdivision  1  of section 72 of the cannabis law is amended to
 read as follows:
   1. A  retail  dispensary  license  shall  authorize  the  acquisition,
 possession, sale and delivery of cannabis, AND SALE OF UP TO THREE IMMA-
 TURE  CANNABIS  PLANTS  PER  PERSON  FOR  PERSONAL CULTIVATION, from the
 licensed premises of the retail dispensary by such licensee to  cannabis
 consumers.
   §  3.  Subdivision  1  of section 73 of the cannabis law is amended to
 read as follows:
   1. A microbusiness license shall authorize  the  limited  cultivation,
 processing,  distribution,  delivery, and dispensing of their own adult-
 use cannabis and cannabis products. A MICROBUSINESS LICENSE  SHALL  ALSO
 AUTHORIZE  THE  SALE  OF UP TO THREE IMMATURE CANNABIS PLANTS PER PERSON
 FOR PERSONAL CULTIVATION.
   § 4. Subdivision 1 of section 75 of the cannabis  law  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   1. A nursery license shall authorize the production, sale and distrib-
 ution of clones, immature plants, seeds, and other agricultural products
 used  specifically  for  the  planting,  propagation, and cultivation of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11234-02-5

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