New York State Register

Subject: Violations, Hearings and Enforcement of Unlicensed Activities. Purpose: The proposed rule establishes the parameters around violations, hearings, and enforcement around unlicensed activities and creates requirements that are intended to further protect public health, safety, and welfare by preventing unlawful cannabis or unsafe practices from permeat- ing the marketplace.

Subject: Adult-Use Cannabis. Purpose: To regulate, control, and tax adult-use cannabis, generate new revenue, invest in communities and people most impacted by cannabis criminalization, reduce participation in the unlawful market, create new industries, and increase employment.

Subject: Violations, Hearings and Enforcement. Purpose: The proposed rule establishes the parameters around violations, hearings, and enforcement which accords with the Cannabis Law and cre- ates requirements that are intended to further protect public health, safety, and welfare by preventing unlawful cannabis or unsafe practices from permeating the marketplace.

Subject: Cannabis Research License. Purpose: The proposed rule establishes the application process, require- ments and prohibitions associated with the Cannabis Research License.

Subject: Cannabis Laboratories. Purpose: To protect public health and safety through regulating and permitting laboratories to ensure accurate and reliable results are released by such laboratories and aiding in the determination that final cannabis products accurately reflect potency and meet regulatory limits for contaminants.

Subject: Adult-Use Packaging, Labeling, Marketing and Advertising of Cannabis Products. Purpose: To protect the health and safety of consumers and help prevent targeting cannabis products to youth by establishing parameters around the packaging, labeling, marketing, and advertising of adult-use cannabis products.

Subject: Part 113 – Medical Cannabis. Purpose: To establish the framework for medical use of cannabis for the cannabis medical use program in New York.

Subject: Cannabis Laboratories. Purpose: This emergency rule addresses the immediate need to permit cannabis laboratories; ensure that testing capacity is sufficient; protect the integrity of medical and adult-use cannabis products and the health and safety of patients and consumers of New York.