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These are the major cannabis‑related provisions now inside SB3229: Illinois New...

• Medical patients can buy at any adult‑use dispensary (your medical‑tax‑rate fix is in here).
• Purchase limits doubled for medical, in‑state adult‑use, and out‑of‑state customers.
• Drive‑through / pickup allowed for dispensaries.
• Craft grow canopy expansion.
• Transporter storage site program created.
• Hardship fee waivers for craft growers, infusers, transporters.
• Social equity experience lottery for infusers (including hemp operators).
• Medical‑specific warning label requirement.
• Expanded transporter operating hours.
• Disciplinary action for licensees who chronically fail to pay vendors.
• Many technical and regulatory cleanups.

A new 2026 Illinois cannabis omnibus bill working it’s way through includes a major fix for medical patients: allowing them to shop at any dispensary, including rec‑only, while still getting the medical tax rate.
Because it’s now part of the omnibus (the type of bill leadership actually moves), the odds of it passing are much better this year — roughly a better‑than‑even chance.
If it passes this session, it would take effect this year.