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Winter Edition 2019 – Cannabis
Topics
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Board Approves Jan. 1, 2020 Effective Date for All Marijuana Products, Packaging and Labeling
- Moving?
- Assigning Applications by Region – Update
- Did You Know…
- Trending Now: Use of Personal Funds and Ownership Changes
- Pesticide Disclosures
- Observations from the Field: Discounting Product Between Processors an Retailers
- Paying Your Excise Tax
- Legislative Session and the Licensing Process
- 2019 Legislative Session – Agency Proposed Legislation
- Leaf Data Systems Update
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Board Approves Jan. 1, 2020 Effective Date for All Marijuana Products, Packaging and Labeling
Moving?
Assigning Applications by Region – Update
Did You Know…
Trending Now: Use of Personal Funds
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Funds can only be used once the WSLCB receives an Additional Funding Application.
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The policy only applies to approved owners who are investing their own personal money into the business.
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Licensing will investigate the source of the additional funds.
Ownership Changes
Pesticide Disclosures
Observations from the Field: Discounting Product Between Processors and Retailers.
Paying Your Excise Tax
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In the process of getting a bank account
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Have lost their bank
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The bank has denied their application
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Some other reason why they are unable to get money orders or a bank account.
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Payments made by electronics fund transfer are considered received the date they are entered into Payment Station.
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Payments made in person, by electronic funds transfer or mail post marked or received after the tax due date will be assessed a two percent late payment penalty
Legislative Session and the Licensing Process
2019 Legislative Session Agency Proposed Legislation
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The expiration date of the Licensing and Enforcement System Modernization Project Account is revised from June 30, 2019 to September 1, 2023.
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This will not cost licensees any money. It simply allows the funds to be spent on the purpose for which the fees were collected in the first place – modernizing our legacy computer and record keeping systems – after July 1, 2019.
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Otherwise, the $1.2 million in currently available funds would be transferred to the state general fund
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Modeled on the training required for employees who serve alcohol for on-premises consumption, this permit would be required for cannabis retail store employees who sell or service marijuana products for the public.
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The training program would be developed by the LCB and would be good for two years.
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This bill would give LCB enforcement officers the same authority to enforce state laws for cannabis, tobacco and vapor products that they currently have for alcohol law enforcement.