ADULT USE | NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF CANNABIS MANAGEMENT
Eligibility
Adults 21 and over
Hours
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1-888-626-5151
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Websitehttps://cannabis.ny.gov/
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Fees
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Service area
Nassau County, NY
NY
Suffolk County, NY
The Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) legalizes cannabis for adults 21 years of age or older. This law sets out a framework that will comprehensively regulate cannabis in New York State in a manner that will protect public health and safety, while promoting social equity and economic development. The Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) will license cultivators, processors, distributors and dispensaries to grow and sell cannabis in New York. To protect consumer safety, there will be laboratory testing and packaging and labeling requirements for cannabis products. The Office will create a social and economic equity program to encourage small businesses and communities disproportionally harmed by disparate drug enforcement to participate in the new industry. The Office will develop rules and regulations for the adult-use industry. Please be aware the laws pertaining to adult use may not apply to medical cannabis usage.
Last assured
07/20/2022
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NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF CANNABIS MANAGEMENT
The Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) is an independent state office established by the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) and housed within the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The OCM will provide a unified regulatory structure to comprehensively regulate and control the cultivation, processing, manufacture, distribution, transportation, and sale of cannabis in New York State. This includes medical cannabis, adult-use or “retail” cannabis and cannabinoid hemp.
The goal of the OCM is to ensure social justice, public health and safety, and economic development through a comprehensive regulatory framework that centralizes licensing, enforcement and economic development functions.