The state attorney general signed off on the medical cannabis rules earlier this week.
By Zach Wendling, Nebraska Examiner
Nebraska’s medical cannabis regulations will become a permanent fixture of the state regulatory code Monday, five days after Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) gave final approval.
Pillen announced Wednesday that he had signed the proposed set of regulations from the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission. Under state law, the regulations will take the force of law five days after the governor’s signature and after being filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State’s Office.
A temporary set of regulations, identical to the now-approved version, had been set to expire July 15. They will be replaced next week.
Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers (R), whose statutory duty is to review proposed regulations for legal and constitutional validity, signed off on the medical cannabis regulations Tuesday. He said they “do not clearly violate the state or federal Constitutions on their face.”
Pillen did not issue a statement about his approval of the regulations. In September, he rejected a draft set of regulations because they did not yet include a plant limit for licensed cultivators, but much of the rest of the regulations were the same.
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