Control Board Approves Adult-Use Home Cultivation Regulations, Advancing Them to a 60-Day Public Comment Period
By Andrew Harris
A key part of the New York State legalization of cannabis was the ability for residents over 21 years old to cultivate at home. While the general public has largely assumed this is already legal, until this regulation becomes law, growing your own plants is illegal.
Once this regulation becomes law, New Yorkers can grow up to 12 plants, six mature and six immature, and keep up to five pounds of cannabis at home. Regulators expect that residents will be able to legally culivate at home in the later half of 2024, or potentially early 2025. Today the NYS Cannabis Control Board released this statement with a link to full memo:
“During today’s meeting, the CCB voted to advance the proposed regulations for Adult-Use Home Cultivation to a 60-day public comment period. These regulations create a framework for New Yorkers to safely cultivate their own cannabis plants at home for their own personal use.
Under these proposed regulations, New Yorkers over the age of 21 will be authorized to:
- Cultivate a maximum of three (3) mature and three (3) immature cannabis plants per person; or
- Cultivate no more than six (6) mature plants and six (6) immature plants per private residence;
- Possess up to five (5) pounds of cannabis flower that has been trimmed from plants which have been cultivated in or on the grounds of said person’s private residence;
- Or the equivalent weight of such cultivated cannabis in cannabis concentrate;
- Or a mixture of both cannabis flower and the equivalent weight of such cultivated cannabis in cannabis concentrate;
- Process cannabis flower into cannabis concentrate as long as they do not utilize a liquid or gas, other than alcohol, that has a flashpoint below 100 degrees Fahrenheit and do not utilize any means that pose an unreasonable risk of harm to persons or property.
To learn more about this proposal, click here to view the preview OCM shared in January.
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