The high cost of medical cannabis, particularly its taxation, has made it impossible for many patients who are financially challenged to obtain a sufficient and steady supply of their medicine.

SB 34 (Weiner, 2019), exempted cannabis donated to financially challenged patients from taxation. Provisions of that law will expire on March of 2025, and must be renewed, in order to continue to supply needy patients with cannabis. AB 2555 would keep these critical donation programs in place.

Currently AB 2555 is being held in the Assembly Appropriations committee, with a hearing on May 15 to determine if it will move on from the committee's suspense file to the Assembly floor.

Please write to your Assemblymember and ask them to contact Appropriations committee chair Buffy Wicks and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, asking them to move this important bill, and asking them to vote for the bill when it goes to the floor.