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Licensed producers grow under canopy classes; the commission counted eight producer licensees in 2025, and licensees employed about sixty people. There is no certified testing laboratory in the Commonwealth. Products are flower, extracts and edibles from licensed processors, with potency limits for concentrates, edibles, tinctures and topicals in progress in 2025.[@ccr25]
Flower, extracts, edibles and other products from licensed processors. In 2025 the commission was working on potency limits for concentrates, edibles, tinctures and topicals.
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CNMI — Public Law 21-25, hemp production under the Division of Agriculture (18 May 2020) 8 unchanged
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label Using cannabis while driving, first offence · treatment civil · fine 500 · note Plus licence suspension for up to six months, label Using cannabis while driving, repeat offence · repeat 2 · treatment civil · fine 1000 · note Plus licence suspension for up to a year
Adults 21 and over may possess up to one ounce in public and eight ounces at home, plus solid and liquid products and five grams of extracts, and may give those amounts to another adult without payment.[@pit20] They may grow six mature and twelve immature plants per household with a $75 annual registry card.[@codeHome,codeRegistry] Use is legal in private and in licensed lounges.[@pit20,ccr25]
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A 2020 hemp law put production under the Division of Agriculture with a 0.3% THC ceiling, under licensing rules consistent with the federal hemp framework; wilful violations can bring up to a year in prison, a $2,500 fine, or both.[@hemp20] The [transfer](/history/cnmi-hemp-agriculture-transfer-2020/) removed hemp from the cannabis commission's remit.
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