The Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission will cap cultivators for the new medicine to grow no more than 1,250 flowering plants at one time, adding a limit that the governor had requested.
Gov. Jim Pillen (R), in a Thursday letter to the five-member commission, said while he appreciated commissioners' work to "ensure the cannabis industry is properly regulated," he would not sign new emergency regulations the commission approved September 2 without the group setting a limit on how many plants cannabis cultivators grow.
"Leaving the cultivators without a limit would increase [the] likelihood of an overabundance of cannabis product that creates an unregulated, unintended black-market supply," Pillen wrote.
Last week, the commission said it would license only four medical cannabis cultivators. The first round of cultivator applications meeting the new regulations are due by September 23. Licensing must begin by October 1.
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