To impose a licensure mandate and authorize a comprehensive regulatory regime for medical marijuana growers, transporters, dispensaries and more, with civil and criminal penalties for violations. Also, to impose an 8 percent tax on retail sales. The provisions of the state's voter-authorized medical marijuana law, Initiated Law 1 of 2008, were ambiguous on dispensaries, and in 2013 the state Supreme Court declared the law does not authorize them. The bill would authorize them, but let local governments choose to ban them.   Official Text and Analysis.

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-4) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To also authorize regulations that ban edible marijuana products whose shapes appeal to minors.

To impose a licensure mandate and authorize a comprehensive regulatory regime for medical marijuana growers, transporters, dispensaries and more, with civil and criminal penalties for violations. This would be modeled on the state's "three tier" alcohol distribution regime, which has been criticized for empowering anti-competitive regional distribution monopolies. Also, to impose a 3 percent tax on retail sales. The provisions of the state's voter-authorized medical marijuana law, Initiated Law 1 of 2008, were ambiguous on dispensaries, and in 2013 the state Supreme Court declared the law does not authorize them. The bill would authorize them, but let local governments choose to ban them.

To revise details of the division of the money from the proposed tax.

To impose a licensure mandate and authorize a comprehensive regulatory regime for medical marijuana growers, transporters, dispensaries and more, with civil and criminal penalties for violations. Also, to impose a 3 percent tax on retail sales. The provisions of the state's voter-authorized medical marijuana law, Initiated Law 1 of 2008, were ambiguous on dispensaries, and in 2013 the state Supreme Court declared the law does not authorize them. The bill would authorize them, but let local governments choose to ban them.