More than eight years after the state moved to allow adults to use marijuana recreationally, rules for how Amsterdam-style pot cafes will operate in the Bay State are finally coming into focus and could be in place by Halloween.

The commission’s work to iron out the kinks in their December-offered social consumption site draft rules should conclude after their July 10 regular meeting with the final version due shortly after, according to acting Cannabis Control Commission Chair Bruce Stebbins,

“Our work here today is intended to answer some bigger policy questions that will guide some of the changes for all of us to come back and consider at the end of July to start the promulgation process,” Stebbins said during the commission’s regular meeting.

The chair added that industry stakeholders and residents alike should be aware that nothing about the draft regulations is written as a “baked-in part of the framework that cannot be amended.” There will be space provided for public comment after the commission has their finished product in hand, he said.

According to CCC Deputy General Counsel Michael Baker, commission staff should have the final draft of the regulations in front of commissioners about a week before their as-yet-unscheduled second meeting of next month.

If the commission manages to approve that version at that meeting, Baker said it will take commission staff a couple of weeks to get their ducks in a row and then notify the Secretary of the Commonwealth and other state agencies of the new rules.

“We can have our public hearing 35 days after that,” Baker said.

It will be a further week after the public meeting before staff has incorporated any new recommendations and completed “red-lining” of the regulations, Baker said. Once that’s done, the commission will have their final rules in hand.

That means that by “probably the end of August or early September,” the administrative process should be wrapped, “assuming we get a vote to send it off to the Secretary in the July meeting,” Baker said.

Under that timeline, Baker told the commission they will have “enforceable social consumption regs” in place “come October.”

The 2016 ballot law that legalized non-medical marijuana also included a provision that would allow adults to use it in licensed public places. During the launch of the marijuana industry, commissioners set social consumption regulations on the back burner in favor of seeing retail sales go live more quickly.

The commission finally had a draft set of regulations in hand as of this past December.