Washington, D.C., lawmakers have voted to increase the size of a tax vacation on medical marijuana purchases surrounding 4/20.
The invoice additionally extends the validity interval for MMJ registration playing cards and offers the District of Columbia’s hashish regulator new powers in opposition to unlicensed retailers.
The tax vacation was initially launched in 2022.
Underneath the brand new laws, the tax vacation will final for a further 4 days in 2024, from April 15 via April 28, which may increase transactions at D.C. dispensaries.
Medical hashish gross sales in Washington, D.C., are ordinarily taxed at 6%.
The regulation can even make MMJ registration playing cards within the District of Columbia legitimate for six years, as an alternative of the earlier two-year restrict.
“This modification serves to enhance affected person entry into our medical hashish program and would make the District per the state of Maryland which applied a six-year medical hashish affected person card in 2022,” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser stated in a March letter introducing the laws.
Lastly, the invoice provides D.C.’s Alcoholic Beverage and Hashish Administration authority to shut unlicensed retailers and seize their hashish merchandise.
Mayor Bowser’s letter stated that authority applies “the place the continued operations of the unlicensed retailer presents an imminent hazard to the well being, security, or welfare of the general public.”
The District additionally handed laws in January focusing on unlicensed marijuana shops.