Kansas legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Kansas HB2678: Enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products
Status: In committee, April 10, 2026
What the bill says
An act concerning health and healthcare; relating to medical cannabis; enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act; providing for the licensure and regulation of the cultivation, processing, manufacturing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products; establishing the medical cannabis registration fund and the medical cannabis regulation fund; requiring the expungement of cannabis-related charges…
From the introduced text, February 4, 2026:
AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to medical cannabis; enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act; providing for the licensure and regulation of the cultivation, processing, manufacturing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products; establishing the medical cannabis registration fund and the medical cannabis regulation fund; requiring the expungement of cannabis-related charges; assessing an excise tax and requiring amounts collected from such tax to be used to fund child care, economic development, mental health, low-cost housing and property tax rebates; making exceptions to the crimes of unlawful manufacture and possession of controlled substances; amending K.S.A. 21-5703, 215706, 21-5707, 21-5709, 21-5710, 21-6109, 23-3201, 38-2269, 441009, 44-1015, 79-5201 and 79-5210 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 8-1567, 21-5705, 21-6607, 22-3717, 22-4714, 44-501, 44-706, 65-1120 and 6528b08 and repealing the existing sections. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: New Section 1. (a) Sections 1 through 41, and amendments thereto, shall be known as the Kansas medical cannabis act. (b) The legislature hereby declares that the Kansas medical cannabis act is enacted pursuant to the police power of the state to protect the health of its citizens, which power is reserved to the state of Kansas and its people under the 10th amendment to the constitution of the United States. New Sec. 2. As used in the …