Department of Cannabis Control Provides Notice of Proposed Regulatory Action

March 14, 2025

Notice of proposed rulemaking to adopt regulations to update cultivation regulations and implement minimum sanitation standards.

The Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) is providing notice to the public of its intent to revise existing regulations to remove redundant and duplicative provisions; streamline operational and administrative burdens for licensees and the Department; and establish minimum sanitation standards.

Specific changes include:

• Clarifying tracking and labeling of harvest batches.
• Extending the time limit for temporary events to 30 days.
• Allowing cultivation licensees to transfer immature plants and seeds to a nursery.
• Allowing cultivation licensees to transfer immature plants and seeds to another cultivation premises owned by that licensee.
• Deleting the requirement to submit a pest management plan at the time of application.
• Deleting the requirement to submit electricity reporting with a renewal application and to purchase carbon offsets.
• Establishing minimum sanitation standards for licensees that handle exposed cannabis.