California marijuana retailers would be required to offer customers a free measuring device when they purchase certain multi-serving cannabis beverages under a bill now awaiting action from Governor Gavin Newsom.
Assembly Bill 2532, authored by Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D), was presented to Newsom on last week after clearing its final legislative votes without opposition. The Senate approved the measure 40 to 0 on August 27, followed later that day by a 74 to 0 Assembly vote concurring with Senate amendments. Governor Newsom now has until September 30 to sign the bill into law, veto it, or allow it to become law without his signature.
Beginning July 1, 2027, retailers would be required to offer consumers purchasing a marijuana beverage containing more than one serving a measuring instrument or device at no additional charge. The devices would be supplied by manufacturers on an as-needed basis and would need to hold at least one fluid ounce while measuring quantities to the nearest tenth of an ounce.
The bill would also require labels on multi-serving marijuana beverages to clearly tell consumers that the product contains multiple servings, identify the size of a single serving in fluid ounces and provide information on how to accurately measure a serving.
For beverages sold in transparent containers, or containers that otherwise allow consumers to see the amount of liquid remaining, manufacturers would generally need to add visible lines showing individual serving or portion sizes. Containers whose shapes make accurate serving lines impossible would be exempt from that requirement.
AB 2532 would also prohibit marijuana businesses from advertising or marketing multi-serving beverages as single-serving products or otherwise encouraging consumers to drink multiple servings at once.
In another labeling change, edible marijuana products and cannabis beverages would be required to include the toll-free number for the national Poison Help line.
California law already limits edible marijuana products to no more than 10 milligrams of THC per serving and requires solid multi-serving edibles to be divided or scored into standardized serving sizes. AB 2532 would extend a similar emphasis on clearly identifiable servings to liquid products.
Because the proposal amends provisions stemming from Proposition 64, the 2016 voter-approved initiative that legalized recreational marijuana in California, it required a two-thirds vote in both chambers. The Legislature declared in the bill that the changes further the purposes and intent of Proposition 64.
