Filed as: Medical Cannabis Program
South Dakota's medical cannabis program has updated its regulations to clarify definitions, streamline registration processes, and establish new operational requirements. The changes remove outdated references to "collectives" from the main definitions section and relocate collective rules to specific sections where they apply, add new definitions for inspection methods and violation severity levels, and adjust the conversion calculation for cannabis oil and tincture products from 15 grams to 8,000 milligrams of THC to better reflect potency. Medical cannabis establishments cultivating outdoors or in structures without full security features must now install six-foot fencing that obscures activities, cannabis testing facilities have 32 months instead of an indefinite timeline to achieve accreditation, and all cannabis products must display expiration dates on packaging effective October 1, 2025.
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Adds definitions for further clarity, repeal obsolete references, cleans-up the non-resident and establishment registration process, adjusts a conversion calculation, modifies and clarifies establishment operation processes, requires expiration date on products, and establishes the imposition and payment of fines.
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