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Read. Follow. Verify.North Dakota House Bill 1321 increases medical marijuana purchase limits and extends registry card validity to two years
Last action · February 10, 2025: Second reading, failed to pass, yeas 37 nays 53Sponsors: Steve Vetter and 8 others
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What This Bill Proposed
North Dakota House Bill 1321 increases the 30-day medical marijuana purchase limits and possession caps for registered patients, extends registry card validity from one year to two years, and lowers compassion center renewal fees. The bill failed to pass the House.
Changes medical marijuana possession limits, purchase caps, registry card renewal timelines for patients, and operational fees for dispensaries and manufacturing facilities in North Dakota.
- North Dakota voters legalized medical marijuana through an initiated measure in 2016, establishing a regulated system of compassion centers and patient registry cards. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Registered qualifying patients
Patients experience changes to their 30-day purchase limits, possession caps, allowable THC concentrations, and the validity duration of their registry identification cards.
Registered designated caregivers
Caregivers purchase and possess medical marijuana on behalf of registered patients under the adjusted statutory weight and concentration limits.
Compassion center dispensaries and manufacturing facilities
Compassion centers are subject to revised maximum renewal fee amounts submitted to the department.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Failed in the House.
Procedural history
7 actions- Feb 10, 2025HouseSecond reading, failed to pass, yeas 37 nays 53
- Feb 7, 2025HouseCommitteeRequest return from committee
- Feb 6, 2025HouseRereferred to Appropriations
- Feb 6, 2025HouseCommitteeAmendment adopted
- Feb 5, 2025HouseCommitteeReported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 6 5 2
- Jan 20, 2025HouseCommitteeCommittee Hearing 03:00
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- Jan 13, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduced, first reading, referred Human Services Committee
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 45)
- Controversy50Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz15Current news / social attention level
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