Nebraska’s limited number of commercial medical marijuana cultivators will not be able to grow more than 1,250 flowering plants.
It was to please Republican Gov. Jim Pillen, who refused to sign the rules, and advocates criticized that it had been too restrictive without additional restrictions on farming, according to Nebraska Public Radio.
Nebraska voters legalized medical marijuana by majority last November.
But since then, litigation by top politicians including Piren and official opposition have delayed MMJ’s launch in a conservative country.
Last week, the Nebraska Medical Marijuana Commission unveiled rules that include licenses limiting business opportunities no more than:
- Four farmer.
- Four processors.
- 12 pharmacies.
That wasn’t good enough for Pillen, who refused to sign the rules.
The governor pointed out in a letter on September 4 that the farming limits are needed to reduce “unregulated, unexpected black market supply.”
Nebraska’s medical marijuana cultivation restrictions are too low to provide patients?
On Monday, the committee passed new rules that limit each of the four future tillers to no more than 1,250 flowering plants at a time.
According to Crista Eggers, executive director of Nebrastan Medical Marijuana, the successful voting program for the marijuana was organized, which would be too low to provide marijuana patients in the state.
She told Nebraska Public Radio that tillers may need to plant 5,000 plants for 2,500 patients.
It is not clear whether the 1,250 factory limit will meet Pillen. The committee is scheduled to meet on September 30.
Nebraska’s current rules also prohibit cannabis consumption and smoky and evaporated cannabis.
Under the proposed rules, marijuana can only be consumed by “oral tablets, capsules or tin agents, as well as gels, oils, creams or other topical use.”
Cannabis patients are also prohibited from obtaining or possessing the original cannabis plant.
Eggs said this also contradicts the voter-approved plan 437.
