2020 Senate Bill 959

Spend more marijuana tax money on research

Introduced in the Senate

June 4, 2020

Introduced by Sen. Adam Hollier (D-2)

To extend until Oct. 1 2023 a provision of the state recreational marijuana law that requires spending for two years $20 million a year of the annual tax revenue it brings at a state university on research regarding the efficacy of medical marijuana, and also require some of it to be spent on researching “various means of treating the medical conditions and preventing the suicide of public safety officers”.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations