Legislation that “increases the maximum expiration date allowable for a cannabis product after registration absent stability testing, from six months to 12 months” has received unanimous approval by Virginia’s House and Senate. Expiration
House Bill 815 was filed last month by Delegate Mike Cherry (R). The measure was approved through the House of Delegates on February 13th; the vote was 99 to 0. Exactly two weeks later the measure was approved by the Senate, also unanimously, 39 to 0. It will now be sent to Governor Glenn Youngkin, who can sign it into law, allow it to become law or veto it, with the latter being at most a political gesture given the measure has well more than the 2/3rds required to override a veto.
According to its official summary, the bill “increases the maximum expiration date allowable for a cannabis product after registration absent stability testing, from six months to 12 months”, and “allows pharmaceutical processors to employ as pharmacy technician trainees individuals who have less than one year of experience and allows pharmaceutical processors to employ persons with less than one year of experience to perform certain other supervised duties for which current law requires two years of experience.”
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“There is increasing interest in understanding the impact of non-medical cannabis legalization on use of other substances, especially alcohol”, states the study’s abstract “Evidence on whether cannabis is a substitute or complement for alcohol is both mixed and limited.” With that in mind, this study “provides the first quasi-experimental evidence on the impact of Canada’s legalization of non-medical cannabis on beer and spirits sales.”
