Senate Bill 25-076 Introduced

LLS NO. 25-0272.02 Jery Payne x2157
First Regular Session
Seventy-fifth General Assembly
State of Colorado

Senate Sponsorship

Amabile and Pelton B.,

House Sponsorship

Brown,


Senate Committees

Business, Labor, & Technology

House Committees

No committees scheduled.


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Bill Summary

(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at http://leg.colorado.gov.)

The bill requires the marijuana enforcement division, the natural medicine division, and the department of public health and environment (department), when regulating marijuana and marijuana products and hemp and hemp products and psilocybin, psilocin, and possibly dimethyltryptamine, ibogaine, and mescaline (natural medicine), to prioritize the public health over private interests in exercising regulatory authority and develop measures designed to prevent these agencies or an agent or employee of these agencies from becoming unduly influenced by licensees or registrants.

Current law requires the marijuana enforcement division to adopt rules governing labeling of regulated marijuana and regulated marijuana products. The bill requires the labeling of regulated marijuana and regulated marijuana products to include the amount of total THC per package and a solid color strip on the face of the packaging that indicates THC potency of marijuana or a marijuana product by showing the corresponding color as follows:

A marijuana store must post, at all times and at every point of sale, a sign that explains the meaning of the color strips.

Inhaled marijuana is required to have the following labeling:

Current law authorizes the marijuana enforcement division to seek the assistance of the department when adopting certain rules. The bill requires the marijuana enforcement division to seek this assistance.

Current law limits the standard serving size of edible marijuana products to 10 milligrams. The bill adds inhaled marijuana and requires that its serving size is limited to 10 milligrams and the package weight to 500 milligrams.

The bill forbids a retail marijuana store, a retail marijuana transporter, a marijuana hospitality business, a retail marijuana accelerator store, and a retail marijuana hospitality and sales business from selling, distributing, permitting the sale of, or offering to sell or distribute the following to an individual who is 25 years of age or younger:

The natural medicine division is required to adopt rules that include:

A natural medicine license holder is prohibited from manufacturing, distributing, or transferring natural medicine or a natural medicine product that:

Current law creates a social equity program that gives loans, grants, and technical assistance to disadvantaged persons by helping an approved applicant to obtain a marijuana license and start a marijuana business. The funding comes from the marijuana tax cash fund. The bill expands this program to include a person who wants to start any type of business.