An Act relative to supporting sustainability in the cannabis industry
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| Date | Branch | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 9/25/2025 | House | Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means |
| 7/9/2025 | Joint | Hearing rescheduled to 07/22/2025 from 10:30 AM-01:00 PM in A-2 |
| 7/9/2025 | Joint | |
| 2/27/2025 | Senate | Senate concurred |
| 2/27/2025 | House | Referred to the committee on Cannabis Policy |
No additional cosponsors.
| Committee | Recommendation | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| J50 | Favorable | 1 entries |
of Chapter 94G of the General Laws is amended by inserting, at the end of the section, the following subsection: (m) The commission shall convene a sustainability working group and will meet with representatives from the cannabis industry in the commonwealth to discuss measures that will increase sustainable practices and reduce the use of natural materials in the cannabis industry. The working group will address issues including, but not limited to: (i) how cannabis cultivators, wholesalers, and the commonwealth may cooperate on a system of recollecting, sanitizing, and reusing returned packages for consumer use (ii) the development of a manual of best practices that the CCC will issue to standardize regulations and recommendations around the legal disposal of marijuana waste and recollection of packages (iii) the development of a recollection and reuse program for radio frequency identification tags used for seed-to-sale tracking.
Section 4 of Chapter 94G of the General Laws is amended by inserting, at the end of the section, the following subsection: (m) The commission shall convene a sustainability working group and will meet with representatives from the cannabis industry in the commonwealth to discuss measures that will increase sustainable practices and reduce the use of natural materials in the cannabis industry. The working group will address issues including, but not limited to: (i) how cannabis cultivators, wholesalers, and the commonwealth may cooperate on a system of recollecting, sanitizing, and reusing returned packages for consumer use (ii) the development of a manual of best practices that the CCC will issue to standardize regulations and recommendations around the legal disposal of marijuana waste and recollection of packages (iii) the development of a recollection and reuse program for radio frequency identification tags used for seed-to-sale tracking.